{"product_id":"the-communist-hypothesis-isbn-9781781688700","title":"The Communist Hypothesis","description":"\u003ci\u003e“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 capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Alain Badiou \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e for our time?”—\u003ci\u003ePlatypus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—Lucy Wadham, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\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“One of the saddest, funniest books of the past 20 years.”—John Kappes, \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302600593637,"sku":"NP9781781688700","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781688700.jpg?v=1767738759","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-communist-hypothesis-isbn-9781781688700","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}