The Communist Hypothesis
$21.64
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2015
Summary
“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 un…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781688700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1781688702 |
| Author: | Alain Badiou |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Pocket Communism |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A Little Red Book for our time? * Platypus *An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. – Lucy Wadham * New Statesman *A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! – Slavoj ZizekShaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
About The Author
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.
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