Badiou, Balibar, Rancière
Subtitle: re-thinking emancipation
By: By Nick Hewlett.
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826498618
Subjects: Badiou, Alain; Rancière, Jacques; Balibar, Etienne, -- 1942-; Political science -- Philosophy; Democracy; Equality; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Note on translations; title: Abbreviations; title: Contexts and parameters; title: Characteristics of modern French thought; title: The legacy of Louis Althusser; title: Concluding remarks; title: Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth; title: The role of philosophy; title: Truth; title: The event, movement and change; title: Concluding remarks; title: The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics; title: Politics, the event and the truth procedure; title: Against and beyond the postmodern; title: Marxism and historical materialism; title: Democracy; title: Parliamentary politics; title: Badiou's political activism; title: Concluding remarks; title: Jacques Rancière: politics is equality is democracy; title: Listening to the unheard; title: Liberal democracy and language; title: Defining the political; title: Democracy and post-democracy; title: Concluding remarks; title: Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty, citizenship; title: The political; title: Ambivalence, universality, ideology; title: Political violence; title: Lenin and Gandhi; title: Concluding remarks; title: With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancire; title: References and bibliography; title: Index.