thirty-four short plays for children and everyone else /
First Statement of Responsibility
Alain Badiou ; translated and with an introduction by Joseph Litvak.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Columbia University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Table of Contents; Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed philosophe; Translator's Introduction: Badiou the Comedian/Ahmed the Philosopher; Ahmed the Philosopher; Notes.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the?treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it.