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==Book Description==
[[English]]-[[speaking]] readers might be surprised to learn that [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] writes [[fiction]] and plays along with his [[philosophical]] works and that they are just as important to [[understanding]] his larger [[intellectual]] [[project]]. In ''Ahmed the [[Philosopher]]'', Badiou’s most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first [[time]], readers are introduced to Badiou’s [[philosophy]] through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in [[France]].
''Ahmed the Philosoph''er presents its comic hero, the “treacherous servant” Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The [[comedy]] unfolds as a series of lessons, with each “short play” or [[sketch]] illuminating a different Badiousian [[concept]]. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and [[performative]] aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic [[energy]] that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the [[world]]. Through his example, the audience is moved to a [[living]] engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the [[power]] to break through the limits of everyday [[life]].
