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.

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

About the Author
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.

Reviews
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj Zizek
An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. * New Statesman *
One of the most important philosophers writing today. -- Joan Copjec



Book Information
ISBN 9781844677818
Author Alain Badiou
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 231g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 18mm