{"product_id":"the-adventure-of-french-philosophy-isbn-9781844677931","title":"The Adventure of French Philosophy","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Adventure of French Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBadiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Plateaus\u003c\/i\u003e. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.“French philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned.”—Jonathan Rée, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Focused and illuminating, technical and deft.”—Shahidha Bari, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A series of snapshots of how Badiou participates in and understands what ... we might call the post-1960s moment in French philosophy.”—\u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305186152677,"sku":"NP9781844677931","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677931.jpg?v=1767738007","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-adventure-of-french-philosophy-isbn-9781844677931","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}