عنوان

Polemics /

(Number (ISBN

1844670899

(Number (ISBN

9781844670895

Number

b797193

Title Proper

Polemics /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cécile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Corcoran.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Verso,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiii, 339 pages ;

Dimensions

20 cm

Text of Note

"'Part one' first published as Circonstances 1 in 2003 ... and Circonstances 2 in 2004 ... ; 'Part two' first published as Circonstances 3 ... 'Part three' first published as 'La commune de Paris' and La revolution culturelle' ..."--Title page verso.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

pt. 1. PHILOSOPHY AND CIRCUMSTANCES: Introduction -- Philosophy and the question of war today: 1. On September 11 2001: philosophy and the 'War against terrorism' -- 2. Fragments of a public journal on the American war against Iraq -- 3. On the war against Serbia: who strikes whom in the world today? -- The 'democratic' fetish and racism: 4. On parliamentary 'democracy': the French presidential elections of 2002 -- 5. The law on the Islamic headscarf -- 6. Daily humiliation -- Openings/Affirmations: 7. The power of the open: A discourse on the necessity of fusing Germany and France -- 8. Third sketch of a manifesto of affirmationist art -- Notes to part one -- pt. 2. USES OF THE WORD 'JEW': Introduction -- 1. Israel: the country in the world where there are the fewest Jews? -- 2. The destruction of the European Jews and the question of evil (fragments from Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil, translated by Peter Hallward) -- 3. A dialogue between a Jew from Darzia and an Arab from Epirus -- 4. Saint Paul and the Jews (excerpt from Saint Paul: the foundation of universalism, translated by Ray Brassier) -- 5. Against negationism -- 6. Local angel -- 7. Intervew at the Daily Haaretz -- 8. The master-signifier of the New Aryans (by Cécile Winter) -- 9. The word 'Jew' and the sycophant -- Notes to part two -- pt. 3. HISTORICITY OF POLITICS: LESSONS OF TWO REVOLUTIONS. 1. The Paris commune: a political declaration on politics -- 2. The cultural revolution: the last revolution? -- A brief chronology of the cultural revolution (translated by Bruno Bosteels) -- Notes to part three.

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Text of Note

""Polemics" is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With critical insight and polemical skill, Badiou considers how language becomes judgment, which judgments form opinion, how opinions harden into propaganda, and which propaganda becomes the dominant power. With wit and profundity, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth."--Jacket.

General Material Designation

Circonstances.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Political science-- Philosophy.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Number

Edition

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Book number

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System Code

System Code

Badiou, Alain.

Winter, Cécile.

Date of Transaction

20201207095844.0

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[Book]

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