Polemics

Following on from Alain Badiou's acclaimed works __Ethics__ and __Metapolitics__, __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 the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment and propaganda--and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force. Both wittily and profoundly, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth. pt. 1. Philosophy and circumstances. 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 pt. 2. Uses of the word "Jew". 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 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). Following on from Alain Badiou's acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics , 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 the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment and propaganda--and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force. Both wittily and profoundly, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth. ""Polemics" is a series of 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. Badiou considers how language becomes judgment, which judgments form opinion, how opinions harden into propaganda, and which propaganda becomes the dominant power. He presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth. Overturning The Dominant Narrative Of Events, From The Paris Commune To The Iraq Wars. 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. At Once Witty And Profound, Badiou Presents A Series Of Radical Philosophical Engagements With Politics, And Questions What Constitutes Political Truth. A collection of political essays from Alain Badiou. It includes Badiou's sketch of a possible "fusion" of Germany and France into a figure beyond the nation-state. It includes two essays, more philosophical in style, on two momentous sequences of history, the Paris Commune and Cultural Revolution. A series of brilliant political reflections demolishing established positions on the Iraq War to the Cultural Revolution.