| Can Politics Be Thought? Contributor(s): Badiou, Alain (Author), Bosteels, Bruno (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1478001666 ISBN-13: 9781478001669 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2018023532 |
| Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.45 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou argues for the continuation of Marxist politics. In so doing, he shows why we need to recapture the emancipatory hypothesis of Marx's original gesture in order to actualize its radical potential. This volume also includes Badiou's "Of an Obscure Disaster: On the End of the Truth of the State," in which he rebuts claims of Communism's death after the fall of the Soviet Union. |