Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zižek together have emerged as two of
Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit
of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing
philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political
circumstances. These thinkers are especially interested in asking
what consequences the supposed twentieth-century demise of
communism entails for leftist political theory in the early
twenty-first century."
Badiou, Zižek, and Political Transformations" examines Badiouian
and Zižekian depictions of change, particularly as deployed at the
intersection of philosophy and politics. The book details the
origins of Badiou's concept of the event and Zižek's concept of the
act as related theoretical visions of revolutionary happenings,
delineating a number of difficulties arising from these similar
concepts. Johnston finds that Badiou and Zižek tend to favor models
of transformation that risk discouraging in advance precisely the
efforts at changing the world of today that these uncompromising
leftists so ardently desire. "Badiou, Zižek, and Political
Transformations" will surely join Johnston's "Zižek's Ontology "as
an instant classic in its field.
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