Century

AvAlain Badiou

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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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'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's Prisoners of Altona, 'I have taken the century on my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!' The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou'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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-02-27
Mått:153 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt:368 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780745636320

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Alain Badiou, Professor of Philosophy, l'Ecole normale superieure

Recensioner i media

"The lesson of the book is: remain faithful to the twentieth century. The Century is not 'the best' book of the last decade, it is simply the book of the last decade! Read it with the proper tremor, aware that you are reading a classic, that a figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"Slavoj Žižek "Badiou's sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent." Steve Poole, The Guardian

Innehållsförteckning

Translating The CenturyDedication1. Search for a Method2. The Beast3. The Unreconciled4. A New World. Yes, but When?5. The Passion for the Real and the Montage of Semblance6. One Divides into Two7. Sex in Crisis8. Anabasis9. Seven Variations10. Cruelties11. Avant-gardes12. The Infinite13. The Joint Disappearances of Man and GodSelect BibliographyCommentaryRemarks on the Translation