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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 [[thought]] to be the end of a revolutionary epoch: in 1815, the final defeat of Napoleon; and in 1989, the fall of the [[Soviet Union]]. But the revolutions of 1848 proclaimed for a century and a half the [[return]] of revolutionary thought and [[action]]. Likewise, the uprisings underway today herald a worldwide resurgence in the liberating force of the masses—despite the attempts of the ‘international community’ to neutralize its [[power]].

Badiou’s book salutes this reawakening of [[history]], weaving examples from the Arab Spring and elsewhere into a [[global]] [[analysis]] of the return of emancipatory [[universalism]].