Changes
The LinkTitles extension automatically added links to existing pages (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles">https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles</a>).
{{BBAB}}
[[File:The Adventure of French Philosophy.jpg|thumb]]
==Book Description==
''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 [[time]] in [[English]] or in a revised [[translation]]. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works ''For [[Marx]]'' and ''Reading [[Capital]]'' and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles [[Deleuze]] and Félix Guattari’s ''A Thousand Plateaus''. There are also talks on Michel [[Foucault]] and [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], and reviews of the [[work]] of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.
Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the [[nature]] of [[being]], the [[event]], the [[subject]], and [[truth]], Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his [[thinking]]. Against the formless continuum of [[life]], he posits the [[need]] for radical discontinuity; against the [[false]] [[modesty]] of [[finitude]], he pleads for the [[mathematical]] infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to [[Kant]], he argues for the persistence of the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]]; and against the [[lure]] of ultraleftism, his [[texts]] from the 1970s vindicate the [[role]] of Maoism as a driving force behind the [[communist]] [[Idea]].
