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==Book Description==
Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary [[thought]] is to abolish the [[idea]] that [[politics]] is merely an [[object]] for [[philosophical]] [[reflection]].
[[Badiou]] indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this [[intellectual]] [[tradition]], Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in [[terms]] of the production of [[truth]] and the [[affirmation]] of equality. He [[demands]] that the question of a possible “[[political]] truth” be separated from any [[notion]] of consensus or [[public]] opinion, and that political [[action]] be rethought in terms of the [[complex]] [[process]] that binds [[discussion]] to decision. Starting from this [[analysis]], Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques Ranciere’s writings on workers’ [[history]] and democratic dissensus, the [[role]] of the [[subject]] in [[Althusser]], as well as the [[concept]] of [[democracy]] and the link between truth and justice.
