Alain Badiou

The Pornographic Age (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Bartlett, A. J.; Clemens, Justin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.

Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. In The Pornographic Age he asks us to hold up a mirror to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities in which we live, the shock of which must galvanize us into action. It is only through this realization, this crucial confrontation with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives that we can prompt true revolution.

Including an afterword from international Badiou scholars A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens and a commentary by William Watkin, this book is a philosophical call to arms: Badiou's radical indictment of the current age is an exciting, no-holds-barred exploration of both how we live and how we might live.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350014800
• Artikelnr.: 58509381

Autorenporträt

Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

The Pornographic Age
Alain Badiou Minus something indefinable
A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens Brothel as Category
William Watkin

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The Pornographic Age, Alain BadiouMinus something indefinable, A. J. Bartlett and Justin ClemensBrothel as Category, William Watkin

Rezensionen

In The Pornographic Age, Alain Badiou argues that the dominant ideological fetish of our times is the word "democracy" itself - that is, democracy not in its original meaning of "the shared power of the demos," but in its contemporary perversions in the smug self-definitions of the neo-liberal State. A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens' translation and Afterword are superb, accurate and illuminating. Kenneth Reinhard, Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA