Product: The Century
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou&apos;s wish to plead for an accused that is perfectly capable of defending itself without the authors aid. Nor does he seek to proclaim, like Frantz, the hero of Sartre&apos;s Prisoners of Altona, &apos;I have taken the century on my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!&apos; The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou&apos;s proposal is to reopen the dossier on the century - not from the angle of those wise and sated judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the century itself.

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