num_pages: 214
description: Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil."
language: English
title: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
titlecomplete: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
genres: Classics, France, Cultural, Philosophy, 20th Century, Contemporary, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 1761
publisher: Verso