What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem
that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an
illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money
that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and
walls built to keep some people out. In place of this falsely
unified world of global capitalism, we need to assert a fundamental
principle - namely, that there is one world of living subjects.
This, in Badiou's view, is the categorical imperative of all true
politics. The one world of living subjects is the place where an
infinity of differences and identities exist. Hence foreigners are
not a problem but rather an opportunity and a gift. They bear
witness to the youth of the world in its infinite variety, and it
is with this youth that the politics of the future rests.
Foreignness is the means by which existence is re-evaluated, and
all true politics is a new dawn of existence. This collection of
essays by Badiou, in which he draws out the political implications
of recent events and social movements, will be of value to anyone
interested in the great social and political questions of our time.
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