True Life
Subtitle: A Plea for Corrupting the Young
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781509514892
Subjects: Lifestyles; Youth
Description: 'I m 79 years old. Why the devil then should I be spending time talking about youth?' With a certain degree of self-awareness, renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou examines here the state of youth today. Building on the ideas outlined in his adaptation of Plato's Republic, Badiou argues provocatively for a corruption of youth, not in the pursuit of power, sex or money, but rather philosophy itself, which ultimately is 'the true life'.