Research Catalog

Title

Polemics / Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cécile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Cocoran

Author

Badiou, Alain.

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Winter, Cécile.

Description

xxiii, 339 p.; 20 cm

Uniform Title

Circonstances. English

Alternative Title

Circonstances.

Subject

• Political science > Philosophy

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' ..."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFD 07-1380

ISBN

• 1844670899
• 9781844670895

OCLC

76827959

Author

Badiou, Alain.

Title

Polemics / Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cécile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Cocoran

Imprint

London ; New York : Verso, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Winter, Cécile.

Research Call Number

JFD 07-1380