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The Adventure of French Philosophy (Paperback)
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The Adventure of French Philosophy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R568
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The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone
interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary
thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of
French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published
here for the first time in English or in a revised translation.
Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical
works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of
"potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand
Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc
Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Barbara
Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern
French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions
concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth,
Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking.
Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for
radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he
pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations;
against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence
of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism,
his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving
force behind the communist Idea.
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