
The Communist Hypothesis
Alain Badiou(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 12. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78168-870-0 (ISBN)
Description
"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural" character of the most monstrous inequalities." Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.
Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.
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A Little Red Book for our time? * Platypus * An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. -- Lucy Wadham * New Statesman * A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj Zizek Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy. * Times Higher Education Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-870-0 (9781781688700)
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Alain Badiou
The Communist Hypothesis
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07/2010
Verso Books
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Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.