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==Book Description== | ==Book Description== | ||
+ | Unpacks the diverse [[intellectual]] legacies woven into Badiou’s [[work]] on contemporary [[polemics]] and [[political]] interventions | ||
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+ | The 11 essays in this volume, including a new piece by [[Badiou]] himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political [[thought]]. They intervene critically and evaluate the [[present]] [[state]] of Badiou’s work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought. | ||
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+ | The contributors are a range of established scholars and rising theorists of the Badiou-effect. Each engages with the critical question of ‘how to transmit the exception’ politically. at the intersection of contemporary anti-imperial polemics and debates that strike at the heart of the post-modern condition (Lyotard), [[deconstruction]] ([[Derrida]]), [[psychoanalysis]] ([[Lacan]] – Žižek), [[biopolitics]] (Hardt and Negri) and pedagogy (Rancière). | ||
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+ | Key Features | ||
+ | * Addresses the entire range of Badiou’s political interventions and polemics | ||
+ | * Includes a chapter by Badiou: ‘From [[Logic]] to [[Anthropology]]: Affirmative Dialectics’ | ||
+ | * Investigates the anti-imperialist edge of his [[philosophy]] of [[truth]] | ||
+ | * Brings together his opposition to parliamentary [[politics]] with his trenchant critique of biopolitics |
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