Philosophy and the event /
This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiouʹs thought. Responding to Tarbyʹs questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light po...
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Polity,
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Publisher Address: | Malden, MA |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
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This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiouʹs thought. Responding to Tarbyʹs questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the event is grasped, elaborated and embedded in the world -- this is what Badiou calls a "truth procedure". The event creates a possibility but there then has to be an effort -- a group effort in the case of politics, an individual effort in the case of love or art -- for this possibility to become real and inscribed in the world. -- Publisher description. |
Item Description: | First published in French as La philosophie et l'evenement by Editions Germina, 2010. |
Carrier Form: | xxii, 154 pages ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780745653952 : 0745653952 |
Index Number: | B2430 |
CLC: | B565.59 |
Call Number: | B565.59/B136-2 |
Contents: | 1. Politics --- 2. Love --- 3. Art --- 4. Sciences --- 5. Philosophy. |