One of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.
This is a fiery little book.
*Choice*
His reasoning is powerful and surprising, making some of the best
writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are
impeccable.
*Amazon.com*
Badiou is at his strongest in pointing to the inconsistencies of a
facile multiculturalism, the pluralism of the food court and the
shopping mall, which wilts in the face of any genuine expression of
cultural hostility to liberal values.
*Radical Philosophy*
His lively, stimulating and sometimes completely batty book is an
attempt to make us think differently about what matters to us ...
it is hard not to feel some sympathy for Badiou's intuition that
'morality', 'evil' and indeed much of our standard moral vocabulary
often serve as almost deliberate disguises for mediocre
policy-making, social complacency and a general lack of
adventurousness about life.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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