{"product_id":"ethics-isbn-9781781680186","title":"Ethics","description":"Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.“This is a fiery little book.”—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His reasoning is powerful and surprising, making some of the best writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are impeccable.”—\u003ci\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Badiou is at his strongest in pointing to the inconsistencies of a facile multiculturalism, the pluralism of the food court and the shopping mall, which wilts in the face of any genuine expression of cultural hostility to liberal values.”—\u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His lively, stimulating and sometimes completely batty book is an attempt to make us think differently about what matters to us ... it is hard not to feel some sympathy for Badiou’s intuition that ‘morality’, ‘evil’ and indeed much of our standard moral vocabulary often serve as almost deliberate disguises for mediocre policy-making, social complacency and a general lack of adventurousness about life”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolemics,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Lessons on Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hallward\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eAbsolutely Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBadiou: A Subject to Truth,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOut of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDamming the Flood.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303078908133,"sku":"NP9781781680186","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781680186.jpg?v=1767726401","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ethics-isbn-9781781680186","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}