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Can Politics Be Thought?

by Alain Badiou

2021-05-28 02:57:40

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In Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of ... Read more
In Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou argues for the continuation of Marxist politics. In so doing, he shows why we need to recapture the emancipatory hypothesis of Marxs original gesture in order to actualize its radical potential. This volume also includes Badious “Of an Obscure Disaster: On the End of the Truth of the State,” in which he rebuts claims of Communisms death after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Alain Badiou
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Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. With Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek, he has reclaimed for the radical left the concepts of being, truth and the subject....

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