Badiou Alain - Metapolitics - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Badiou indicts this approach which reduces politics to a matter of opinion thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible political truth be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion and that political action be rethought in terms of the complex process that binds discussion to decision. Starting from this analysis Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus Jacques Ranciere's writings on workers history and democratic dissensus the role of the subject in Althusser as well as the concept of democracy and the link between truth and justice.
Title: Metapolitics
Author(s): Badiou Alain
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677818
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2012
Series: Radical Thinkers
Category: Political Science & Theory