The Adventure of French Philosophy

The Adventure of French Philosophy
Author :
Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 489
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781788737067
ISBN-13 : 1788737067
Rating : 4/5 (067 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Adventure of French Philosophy by : Alain Badiou

Download or read book The Adventure of French Philosophy written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François 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.


The Adventure of French Philosophy Related Books

The Adventure of French Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: Alain Badiou
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-01 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought. Badiou explo
Brave Genius
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: Sean B. Carroll
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-23 - Publisher: Crown

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and f
French Philosophy of the Sixties
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Luc Ferry
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Sierra Club Adventure Travel G

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A very deep and essentially hostile critique of French postmodernist philosophy, beginning with an analysis of the May 1968 student uprising in France, examinin
In Praise of Love
Language: en
Pages: 114
Authors: Alain Badiou
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-27 - Publisher: New Press/ORIM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a
French Theory
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: François Cusset
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explores how the French theory of philosophy, which became popular during the last three decades of the twentieth century, spread to America and examines the cr