Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-171) and index
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Acknowledgements -- Note on translations -- Abbreviations -- Contexts and parameters -- Three characteristics of modern French thought -- The legacy of Louis Althusser -- Concluding remarks -- Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth -- The role of philosophy -- Truth -- The event, movement and change -- Concluding remarks -- The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics -- Politics, the event and truth procedures -- Against and beyond the postmodern -- Marxism and historical materialism -- Democracy -- Parliamentary politics -- Badiou's political activism -- Concluding remarks -- Jacques Rancière: politics is equality is democracy -- Listening to the unheard -- Liberal democracy and language -- Defining the political -- Democracy and post-democracy -- Concluding remarks -- Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty and the dilemmas of modernity -- The political -- Ambivalence, universality, ideology -- Political violence -- Lenin and Gandhi -- Concluding remarks -- With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancière -- References and bibliography -- Index