This concise, accessible volume captures the relationship between politics and philosophy as it is conceived in Alain Badiou's work. Harking back to his mentor Louis Althusser, Badiou explains how politics conditions philosophy, while suggesting that philosophy itself may be needed to clarify the truths produced within the political condition. Badiou also offers an intriguing take on what he calls the four major "ensembles" of French and, more broadly, Western society today, in which new emancipatory forms of politics are emerging: students, the young, workers and immigrants. Badiou concludes with a return to the notion of communism, here defined as an answer to the obscure knot that ties politics, philosophy and democracy.
- ISBN10 1844679861
- ISBN13 9781844679867
- Publish Date 8 November 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 January 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 122
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781844679867