English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain
Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works
and that they are just as important to understanding his larger
intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most
entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for
the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy
through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success
in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the
"treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher
even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The
comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or
sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does
more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and
vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy,
mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of
the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living
engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break
through the limits of everyday life.
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