{"product_id":"polemics-isbn-9781844677634","title":"Polemics","description":"\u003ci\u003ePolemics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.“A thinker of tremendously invigorating moral fervour, able to rise to Swiftian scorn or fine Cocteau-like flourishes....Badiou’s passionate belief in human autonomy is inspiring”—\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda.”—Terry Eagleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePolemics\u003c\/i\u003e, there are withering critiques and witty demolitions of the so-called war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, the bombardment of Serbia and the pantomime of parliamentary democracy ... There is a delightful Swiftian satire on the Islamic headscarf affair and a denunciation of the racism that led to the riots in the banlieues late in 2005.”—Simon Critchley, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Badiou’s] argumentative vigour is undeniable. There is a terrific excoriation of the French burka ban as symptomatic of the enforced display of women, a trenchant series of investigations into “Uses of the Word ‘Jew’”, and a “Manifesto of Affirmationist Art” that is a welcome anecdote to lazy anti-modernism.”—Steven Poole, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\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\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\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":46303601426661,"sku":"NP9781844677634","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677634.jpg?v=1767734937","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/polemics-isbn-9781844677634","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}