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Un ensayo contundente por y para la juventud de la mano de uno de los más grandes filósofos contemporáneos.
¿Qué significa ser joven hoy? ¿En qué se diferencian los jóvenes de hoy de los de ayer? ¿A qué influencias están sujetos? ¿De qué manera los afecta la tecnología? ¿Qué opciones vitales y políticas tienen? ¿Por qué un filósofo de ochenta años debería ocuparse de estos asuntos y dirigirse directamente a los lectores más...
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No hay muchos filósofos vivos en Francia hoy en día, aunque haya más que en otros países, por cierto. Digamos que alcanzan los dedos de ambas manos para contarlos. Tan solo una decena de filósofos, en efecto, si entendemos por tales a los que proponen para nuestra época enunciados singulares, identificables, y si, en consecuencia, ignoramos a los comentadores, a los indispensables eruditos y a los vanos ensayistas. ¿Diez filósofos? ¿O más...
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Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this mix? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic and political associations into our understanding of his thought, or should we treat his intellectual work independently of his abhorrent politics? How does any...
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Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark text and revives its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has instead worked closely on the original Greek and, through spectacular changes, adapted it to our times....
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Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time-that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.
Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou's seminars,...
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In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen only as a variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud's famous line "love needs reinventing," In Praise of Love is the celebrated French philosopher's passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This...
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These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance....
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"El siglo XX ha sido juzgado y condenado: siglo del terror totalitario, de las ideologías utópicas y criminales, de las ilusiones vacías, de los genocidios, de las falsas vanguardias, de la abstracción como sustituto ubicuo del realismo democrático. No deseo abogar por un acusado que sabe defenderse solo. Tampoco quiero, como Frantz, el héroe de la pieza de Sartre Los secuestrados de Altona, proclamar: 'Me eché el siglo al hombro y dije: ¡Responderé...
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Alain Badiou's 1983—1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One": there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.
What is novel in Badiou's view of multiplicity is his reliance...
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Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights. Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth...
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Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz.
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12) Badiou by Badiou
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An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas
In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and...
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Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and public illuminations of his complex ideas yet remain little known. This book, the transcript of Badiou's yearlong seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, is the first volume of his seminars...
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En este libro vibrante y profundo, el reconocido filósofo y escritor Alain Badiou sostiene que para enfrentar a Trump es necesario enfrentar el consenso generado en torno al capitalismo liberal que posibilitó su llegada al poder, y que el único camino es oponerle una opción que no puede llevar otro nombre que comunismo.
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