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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 “[[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.