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- Book Title
- Philosophy in the Present
- ISBN
- 9780745640976
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745640974
ISBN-13
9780745640976
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73334852
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Philosophy in the Present
Publication Year
2009
Subject
General, Metaphysics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
4.5 Oz
Item Length
7.6 in
Item Width
4.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-279143
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The book is an incisive critique of the role of the intellectual within the areas of violence and hunger, love and death. I am sure it will inspire many to go further into the writings of these two very radical philosophers whose intellectual polemics offer a compelling conversation on contemporary visions of resistance to arbitrary state power and violence through a revitalised view of philosophy's place in the world today." Spectrum "How can philosophy be restored to its true vocation as a form of ethical and political intervention? In this lively, accessible debate two of Europe's most challenging thinkers present their answers to this question - and discover how much agreement as well as discord there is between them." Peter Dews, University of Essex
Dewey Decimal
110
Table Of Content
Editor's Preface Alain Badiou Thinking the Event Thesis 1: Thought is the proper medium of the universal. Thesis 2: Every universal is singular, or is a singularity. Thesis 3: Every universal originates in an event, and the event is intransitive to the particularity of the situation. Thesis 4: A universal initially presents itself as a decision about an undecidable. Thesis 5: The universal has an implicative form. Thesis 6: The universal is univocal. Thesis 7: Every universal singularity remains incompletable or open. Thesis 8: Universality is nothing other than the faithful construction of an infinite generic multiple. Slavoj ?i'ek 'Philosophy is not a dialogue' Discussion
Synopsis
Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is strange and new, and yet speaks in the name of all - as Badiou shows with his theory of universality. Similarly, Zizek believes that the philosopher must intervene, contrary to all expectations, in the key issues of the time. He can offer no direction, but this only shows that the question has been posed incorrectly: it is valid to change the terms of the debate and settle on philosophy as abnormality and excess. At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike., Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy intervene in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is intervention and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is concerned with novel extraordinary truths, and yet speaks in the name of all - as Badiou shows in his theory of universality. Similarly, Zizek believes that the philosopher must intervene, contrary to all expectations, in the key issues of the time. Philosophy does not provide guidance, but it tells us that we are asking the wrong questions. We can change the terms of the debate and settle on philosophy as abnormality and excess. At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike., Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline.
LC Classification Number
B2430.B273
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