Polemics - by Alain Badiou (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Overturning the dominant narrative of events, from the Paris Commune to the Iraq wars.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Polemics</i> is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A thinker of tremendously invigorating moral fervour, able to rise to Swiftian scorn or fine Cocteau-like flourishes....Badiou's passionate belief in human autonomy is inspiring"--<i>Daily Telegraph</i> <p/>"Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda."--Terry Eagleton <p/>"In <i>Polemics</i>, there are withering critiques and witty demolitions of the so-called war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, the bombardment of Serbia and the pantomime of parliamentary democracy ... There is a delightful Swiftian satire on the Islamic headscarf affair and a denunciation of the racism that led to the riots in the banlieues late in 2005."--Simon Critchley, <i>London Review of Books</i> <p/>"Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy."--<i>Times Higher Education Supplement</i> <p/>"[Badiou's] argumentative vigour is undeniable. There is a terrific excoriation of the French burka ban as symptomatic of the enforced display of women, a trenchant series of investigations into "Uses of the Word 'Jew'", and a "Manifesto of Affirmationist Art" that is a welcome anecdote to lazy anti-modernism."--Steven Poole, <i>Guardian</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alain Badiou</b> teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including <i>Theory of the Subject</i>, <i>Being and Event</i>, <i>Manifesto for Philosophy</i>, and <i>Gilles Deleuze</i>. His recent books include <i>The Meaning of Sarkozy</i>, <i>Ethics</i>, <i>Metapolitics</i>, <i>Polemics, </i> <i>The Communist Hypothesis</i>, <i>Five Lessons on Wagner</i>, and <i>Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy</i>. <p/><b>Bruno Bosteels</b>, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of <i>Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America</i>, and <i>The Actuality of Communism</i>. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: <i>Theory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought?</i> and <i>What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan</i>. He currently serves as the General Editor of <i>Diacritics</i>. <p/><b>Peter Hallward</b> teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including <i>Absolutely Postcolonial</i>, <i>Badiou: A Subject to Truth, </i> <i>Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation</i>, and <i>Damming the Flood.</i>
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