Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction; Author: Barker, Jason; Paperback

Author: Barker, Jason
Paperback; Notes, References, Bibliography, Index
195 pages
Published: December 2001
Pluto Press Ltd
ISBN: 0745318002

Alain Badiou is rapidly emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. Badiou opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy. Setting the traditional Platonic concerns of philosophy, truth and being, against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences.Giving a clear overview of Alain Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges, Jason Barker's book is set to become the standard work on Badiou for many years to come.Badiou is a French philosopher who is rapidly emerging as a key philosopher of our time. The first comprehensive introduction in English to Badiou's thought. Badiou is a French philosopher who is rapidly emerging as a key philosopher of our time. The first comprehensive introduction in English to Badiou's thought.Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. This work provides an overview of Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges.