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Badiou, Balibar, Rancière : rethinking emancipation /

In recent years there has been increased interest in three contemporary French philosophers, all former students of Louis Althusser and each now an influential thinker in his own right. Alain Badiou is one of the most important living continental thinkers, well-known for his pioneering theory of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hewlett, Nick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2007.
Colección:Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on translations
  • Abbreviations
  • Contexts and parameters
  • Three characteristics of modern French thought
  • The legacy of Louis Althusser
  • Concluding remarks
  • Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth
  • The role of philosophy
  • Truth
  • The event, movement and change
  • Concluding remarks
  • The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics
  • Politics, the event and truth procedures
  • Against and beyond the postmodern
  • Marxism and historical materialism
  • Democracy
  • Parliamentary politics
  • Badiou's political activism
  • Concluding remarks
  • Jacques Rancière: politics is equality is democracy
  • Listening to the unheard
  • Liberal democracy and language
  • Defining the political
  • Democracy and post-democracy
  • Concluding remarks
  • Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty and the dilemmas of modernity
  • The political
  • Ambivalence, universality, ideology
  • Political violence
  • Lenin and Gandhi
  • Concluding remarks
  • With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancière
  • References and bibliography
  • Index.