Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781472572738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str.

Alain Badiou

Opis

Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, through Heidegger to Lacan and Deleuze.Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, Infinite Thought is a vivid demonstration of that range. Here Badiou introduces his own thought on the full gamut of intellectual concerns, from politics, psychoanalysis and art to truth, desire and the definition of philosophy itself. As well as Badiou's reflections on the fall of communism and the 'War on Terror', the book also includes an interview with the author.

Spis treści

An Introduction to Alain Badiou's Philosophy1. Philosophy and Desire2. Philosophy and Truth3. Philosophy and Politics4. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis5. Philosophy and Art6. Philosophy and Cinema7. Philosophy and the 'Death of Communism'8. Philosophy and the 'War Against Terrorism'9. The Definition of Philosophy10. Ontology and Politics: An Interview with Alain BadiouIndex

O autorze

Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).