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POLEMICS
by Badiou, Alain (Translated by Cecile Winter And Steve Corcoran)
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- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1844670899
- ISBN 13
- 9781844670895
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About This Item
London, England: Verso Books, 2006. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Verso Books, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 340 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Alain Badiou's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alain Badiou's "Polemics" in a felicitous English translation. His political and philosophical essays. "Brilliant reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and re-orienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq Wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment, and propaganda, and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force" (Publisher's blurb) . His approach is part mathematical (Cantor's Set Theory) , part rationalist (Analytic Philosophy) , and part poetic (Continental Philosophy) . Radical (in the best sense of the word) and all-encompassing, Badiou's oeuvre towers over all of contemporary Continental philosophy as a grand Romantic gesture in a manner not seen since Sartre. An absolute "must-have" title for Alain Badiou collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALAIN BADIOU AND GILLES DELEUZE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1844670899.
Synopsis
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole 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 Theory of the Subject , Being and Event , Manifesto for Philosophy , and Gilles Deleuze . His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy , Ethics , Metapolitics , Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis , Five Lessons on Wagner , and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy . Bruno Bosteels , Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America , and The Actuality of Communism . He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought? and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan . He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics . Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including Absolutely Postcolonial , Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation , and Damming the Flood.
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- Modern Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18233
- Title
- POLEMICS
- Author
- Badiou, Alain (Translated by Cecile Winter And Steve Corcoran)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 1844670899
- ISBN 13
- 9781844670895
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 340
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