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by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence—showing...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
For Alain Badiou, theatre—unlike cinema—is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by...
by Alain Badiou, Cecile Winter
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Following on from Alain Badiou’s acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics, Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural...
Concept and Form, Volume 2
Interviews and essays on Cahiers pour l'Analyse
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the...
The Age of the Poets
And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2021
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought.
Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first...
Concept and Form, Volume 1
Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the...
Supercommunity
Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present
“I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others...
Making Money
The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself?
In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thinking of Slavoj...
Iran Without Borders
Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
“No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional...
An Ecology of World Literature
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic...
by Emanuele Severino
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation
Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine...
by Georges Perec
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best...
A Civil War
A History Of The Italian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who took part in the struggle against Mussolini’s Fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its...