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Philosophy for Militants

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688699
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Militants written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou’s contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition. To resolve the conflicts between politics, philosophy and democracy, Badiou argues for a resurgent communism – returning to the original call for universal emancipation and organizing for militant struggle.

Philosophy for Militants

Author : Michael Munro
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 0998531820
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Militants written by Michael Munro and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No longer imminent, the End is immanent." "Ends are ends," Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, "only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent." From its imminence to its immanence, not "negative," "no longer," but transformative, how is "the End" in turn "transfigured"? In what may ending be said then to consist? To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"--to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die--from Plato to Montaigne and beyond--one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"--"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes--and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life."

Migrants and Militants

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509542477
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Migrants and Militants written by Alain Badiou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word ‘migrant’ really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled ‘migrants’? In this short book Alain Badiou argues that our way of thinking about migration should be governed both by an ethical duty to welcome the migrant in the name of hospitality and also by the urgent need to put an end to the global capitalist oligarchy that has produced the migrant as a figure of contemporary crisis. For the ‘migrant,’ argues Badiou, is in fact a nomadic proletarian. Today, our homeland is the world, and any meaningful politics must include those who come to us and who represent the universal nomadic proletariat. Writing with the rigor, clarity, and polemical flair that have made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers, and drawing on a rich body of material including contemporary poetry and the words of an anonymous migrant, Badiou develops a powerful riposte to those who have stoked the fear of migrants and exploited the migration question for political ends.

Philosophy for Militants

Author : Michael Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Militants written by Michael Munro and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No longer imminent, the End is immanent.” “Ends are ends,” Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, “only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent.” From its imminence to its immanence, not “negative,” “no longer,” but transformative, how is “the End” in turn “transfigured”? In what may ending be said then to consist? To “the end times” of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and “messianic time”--to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die--from Plato to Montaigne and beyond--one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who “thinks of death least of all things”--“for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away,” as Benjamin writes--and so in whose pages “wisdom,” transfigured, “is a meditation on life.”

Philosophy and the Idea of Communism

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074568839X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Idea of Communism written by Alain Badiou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a well-known text called ‘The Communist Hypothesis’, first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism. Now, in the course of this wide-ranging conversation with Peter Engelmann, Alain Badiou explains why he continues to value the idea of communism against the background of current social crises and despite negative historical experiences. From the anticipation of a communism without a state to the problem of the concept of democracy and an analysis of capitalism as a system, the two thinkers discuss the key political issues of our time. Whilst explaining his political philosophy, Badiou also reflects on current socio-political developments such as the turmoil in the Middle East and the situation in China. This compelling dialogue is both a highly topical contribution to the question of how we might organize our societies differently and an accessible introduction to Badiou's philosophical thinking.

Militants and Citizens

Author : Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751230
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Militants and Citizens written by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazils democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to the World Social Forum, thousands of ordinary citizens participate in local governance, making binding decisions on urban policy on a daily basis. While there has been immense attention paid to the practice of participatory democracy in Porto Alegre, this is the first book to examine the politics, culture, and day-to-day activities of its citizens. Drawing on the rich tradition of urban ethnography and political theory, the book argues that Porto Alegres importance may lie not just with its effective governance, but with its new political logic, namely a greater access to government functions and government officials for traditionally disenfranchised citizens. In an age characterized by seemingly strong voter apathy, this study has global implications. The author shows that in the discussions on the failings of democracy in industrialized countries like the United States, most people may be missing what is central to civic engagement--unimpeded access to government.

The Communist Hypothesis

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688702
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Communist Hypothesis written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

The Good Book

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802778380
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Good Book written by A. C. Grayling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic religions. The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in its beauty of language and arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, offering to the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer and more various than Christianity. Organized in 12 main sections----Genesis, Histories, Widsom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good----The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Incorporating the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book will fulfill its audacious purpose in every way.

Alain Badiou: Live Theory

Author : Oliver Feltham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441148787
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou: Live Theory written by Oliver Feltham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou is undoubtedly the most exciting and influential voice in contemporary French philosophy and one of the most important theorists at work today. His impact on continental philosophy and the wider philosophy community, politics and the arts in the last twenty years has been immense. Alain Badiou: Live Theory offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, laying out the central themes of his major works, including his magnum opus, Being and Event, and its long-awaited sequel, Logics of Worlds. Oliver Feltham explores the fundamental questions through which Badiou's philosophy constantly evolves, identifies the key turning points in his ideas, and makes a clear case for the coherence and powerful singularity of his thought when employed in the analysis of political and artistic situations. Feltham examines the thinkers and theorists with whom Badiou has engaged and who have engaged with him, arguing that Badiou's work is compelling precisely because it opens up new genealogies and new polemics in the intellectual landscape. The book includes a brand new interview with Badiou, in which he discusses his current concerns and future plans. This is the ideal companion to study for students and readers encountering this fascinating thinker for the first time.

Militant Acts

Author : Marcelo Hoffman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438472617
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Militant Acts written by Marcelo Hoffman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed and exploited to stimulate their political mobilization and organization. These investigations assumed a variety of methodological forms in a wide range of geographical and institutional contexts, and they also drew support from the participation of intellectuals such as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Dunayevskaya, Foucault, and Badiou. Marcelo Hoffman analyzes newspapers, pamphlets, reports, and other source materials, which reveal the diverse histories, underappreciated difficulties, and theoretical import of investigations in radical political struggles. In so doing, he challenges readers to rethink the supposed failure of these investigations and concludes that the value of investigations in radical political struggles ultimately resides in the possibility of producing a new political "we."

Theory of the Subject

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826496733
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Subject written by Alain Badiou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including Being and Event) can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of Theory of the Subject, one of his most important works.

Being and Event

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082649529X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Being and Event written by Alain Badiou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus, and a must-have for his growing following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental thought.

Rhapsody For The Theatre

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781681252
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Rhapsody For The Theatre written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Alain Badiou, theatre—unlike cinema—is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship. This definitive collection includes not only Badiou’s pamphlet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badiou’s own work as a playwright, as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy.

Metapolitics

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789600359
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Metapolitics written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Joyful Militancy

Author : Carla Bergman
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352895
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Joyful Militancy written by Carla Bergman and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Absolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom." —John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism "A guide to a fulfilling militant life." —Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly "Rigid radicalism" is the congealed and debilitating practices that suck life and inspiration from the fight for a better world. Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability can thrive alongside fierce militant commitment. Carla Bergman co-edited Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook For Youth. Nick Montgomery is an organizer and writer currently at Queen's University.

Militants or Partisans

Author : Yoonkyung Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804781745
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Militants or Partisans written by Yoonkyung Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions in the decades since labor-repressive authoritarian rule ended, bringing Taiwan, in particular, into the literature on comparative labor politics. South Korean labor unions are commonly described as militant and confrontational, for they often take to the streets in raucous protest. Taiwanese unions are seen as moderate and practical, primarily working through formal political processes to lobby their agendas. In exploring how and why these post-democratization states have come to breed such different types of labor politics, Yoonkyung Lee traces the roots of their differences to how unions and political parties operated under authoritarianism, and points to ways in which those legacies continue to be perpetuated. By pairing two cases with many similarities, Lee persuasively uncovers factors that explain the significant variation at play.

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583670386
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays written by Louis Althusser and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Althusser has tackled a wide variety of subjects, including philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics and political science. This book contains a selection of his writings.