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Theoretical Writings: Alain Badiou by Alain Badiou 9780826493248
Booksplease Price: £61.62Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial... -
Theoretical Writings: Alain Badiou by Alain Badiou 9780826461469
Booksplease Price: £103.11Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's thought revitalizes philosophy's perennial... -
Metapolitics by Alain Badiou
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Badiou 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... -
Happiness by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £17.14'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is... -
What is Philosophy? A Lecture by Alain Badiou 2010 by Alain Badiou 9781940813868
Booksplease Price: £17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940813868Author Alain BadiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Atropos PressPublisher Atropos... -
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £21.74"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to... -
Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What... -
The Century by Alain Badiou 9780745636313
RRP: £57.25Booksplease Price: £56.13Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of... -
Badiou by Badiou by Alain Badiou
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed... -
Polemics by Alain Badiou 9781844677634
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.52Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the... -
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £16.21Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of... -
Happiness by Alain Badiou 9781474275521
Booksplease Price: £71.55'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is... -
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.37Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one... -
Philosophy for Militants by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £14.20An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical... -
In Praise Of Love by Alain Badiou
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A new century, new threats to love . . . Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and... -
Migrants and Militants by Alain Badiou
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word 'migrant' really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled 'migrants'? ... -
Trump by Alain Badiou 9781509536078
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate... -
Conditions by Alain Badiou 9780826498274
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £42.61This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, "Being and Event" in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great... -
Philosophy and the Idea of Communism: Alain Badiou in conversation with Peter Engelmann by Alain Badiou 9780745688350
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05In a well-known text called 'The Communist Hypothesis', first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation... -
The Pornographic Age by Alain Badiou 9781350014787
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain... -
Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou 9780804744089
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £70.42Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What... -
The Pornographic Age by Alain Badiou 9781350014794
Booksplease Price: £19.95Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain... -
In Praise of Philosophy Alain Badiou 9781509565641
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Toceras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors... -
In Praise of Theatre by Alain Badiou 9780745686967
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.35In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike,... -
The End: A Conversation by Alain Badiou 9781509536269
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The notion of 'the end' has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as to declare the end of philosophy itself,... -
Rhapsody for the Theatre by Alain Badiou 9781781681251
Booksplease Price: £18.15For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or ... -
In Praise of Philosophy Alain Badiou 9781509565634
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Toceras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors... -
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £23.55For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this... -
Mathematics of the Transcendental by Alain Badiou 9781474286459
Booksplease Price: £21.70In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and... -
Theory of the Subject by Alain Badiou 9780826496737
Booksplease Price: £56.67Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including "Being and Event") can only be fully understood with a... -
Theoretical Writings by Alain Badiou 9781474234115
Booksplease Price: £27.89Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to... -
Images of the Present Time by Alain Badiou
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed... -
The True Life by Alain Badiou 9781509514885
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young... -
Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou 9780745640969
Booksplease Price: £41.37Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou,... -
In Praise of Mathematics by Alain Badiou 9781509512027
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it's not worth an hour of trouble? What possible... -
Badiou by Badiou by Alain Badiou 9781503630338
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed... -
The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou 9781844676293
Booksplease Price: £14.34In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents-a reactionary tradition that goes back... -
Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou 9780745640976
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.20Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou,... -
In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou 9781595588777
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.54The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online... -
Can Politics Be Thought? by Alain Badiou
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism...