In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes
of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was
to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers
regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both
events occurred after what was commonly thought to be the end of a
revolutionary epoch: in 1815, the final defeat of Napoleon; and in
1989, the fall of the Soviet Union. But the revolutions of 1848
proclaimed for a century and a half the return of revolutionary
thought and action. Likewise, the uprisings underway today herald a
worldwide resurgence in the liberating force of the masses despite
the attempts of the international community to neutralize its
power.
Badiou s book salutes this reawakening of history, weaving
examples from the Arab Spring and elsewhere into a global analysis
of the return of emancipatory universalism.
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