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Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author's whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. It develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth.
In Praise Of Love by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
$28.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love. A new century, new threats to love...Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - wi ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy by Alain Badiou
$37.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Influenced by Plato, Lucretius, Heidegger, Lacan and Deleuze, Badiou is a critic of both the analytical and the postmodern schools of thought. His work spans the range of philosophy, from ethics, to mathematics to science, psychoanalysis, politics and art. His writing is rigorous and startling and takes ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, throug ...Show more
Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In this title, two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic disc ...Show more
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"Pocket Pantheon" is an invitation to engage with the greats of Western postwar though, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today's leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and allies - to offer ...Show more
The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III by Alain Badiou
$44.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga- Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. ...Show more
The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings by Alain Badiou
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Category: Current Affairs
In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers - regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after what was commonly th ...Show more
Trump by Alain Badiou
$23.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this ex ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
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Category: Cultural Studies
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy and anatomizes the antiphilosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein s thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels s ...Show more
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