Metapolitics
Alain Badiou (Author, Ecole normale superieure), Jason Barker (Translator)
A Verso book
In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing
critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political
philosophy.
In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy.
Metapolitics
argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish
the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical
reflection. 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 process that binds
discussion to decision.
Starting from this analysis, Badiou critically examines the thought of
anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques
Rancière’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.
Book Details
- Hardcover
- October 2005
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ISBN 978-1-84467-035-2
- 5.6 × 7.9 in
/ 159 pages
- Territory Rights: USA and Dependencies and the Philippines.
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