Alain Badiou
Subtitle: a critical introduction
By: Jason Barker.
Series: Modern European thinkers
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780745318011; 9780745318004
Subjects: Badiou, Alain; Political scientists -- Biography; Political science -- Philosophy; Philosophy, French -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Description: Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. This work provides an overview of Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maoist beginnings; title: The science of being; title: The event of non-being; title: The politics of truth; title: The cult of Deleuze; title: The ethics of philosophy.