Metapolitics
by Alain Badiou
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Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible "political truth" be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion, and that political action be rethought in terms of the complex show more process that binds discussion to decision. Starting from this analysis, Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques Ranciere's writings on workers' history and democratic dissensus, the role of the subject in Althusser, as well as the concept of democracy and the link between truth and justice. show lessTags
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Written for both serious philosophers and laymen, this work examines the structure of the thoughts behind modern politics.
En definitiva, toda resistencia es ruptura en el pensamiento, mediante el enunciado de lo que es la situación, y fundación de una posibilidad práctica abierta por este enunciado. Contrariamente a lo que se sostiene a menudo, no conviene creer que es el riesgo, muy grave en efecto, el que impide a muchos resistir. Es, por el contrario, el no-pensamiento de la situación el que impide el riesgo, es decir, el examen de las posibilidades. No resistir, es no pensar. No pensar, es no arriesgarse a arriesgar.
Aug 14, 2011Spanish
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Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosphie in Paris.
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Radical Thinkers (67 - Set 6(7))
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.01 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political Science Philosophy and Theory
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- JA71 .B25513 — Political Science Political science (General) Political science (General) Theory. Relations to other subjects
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