{"product_id":"the-idea-of-communism-2-isbn-9781844679805","title":"The Idea of Communism 2","description":"The first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e followed the 2009 London conference called in response to Alain Badiou’s ‘communist hypothesis’, where an all-star cast of radical intellectuals put the idea of communism back on the map.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume brings together papers from the subsequent 2011 New York conference organized by Verso and continues this critical discussion, highlighting the philosophical and political importance of the communist idea, in a world of financial and social turmoil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Susan Buck-Morss, Jodi Dean, Adrian Johnston, François Nicolas, Frank Ruda, Emmanuel Terray and Slavoj Žižek.“Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You’ve had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it—time to get serious once again!”—Slavoj Žižek\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the E?cole 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\u003eÉtienne Balibar\u003c\/b\u003e is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of \u003ci\u003eSpinoza and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Marx\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eRace, Nation and Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReading Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruno Bosteels\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBadiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Actuality of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently serves as the General Editor of \u003ci\u003eDiacritics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Buck-Morss\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJodi Dean\u003c\/b\u003e teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302100160741,"sku":"NP9781844679805","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844679805.jpg?v=1767739893","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-idea-of-communism-2-isbn-9781844679805","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}