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    <body><![CDATA[I don't generally read philosophy unless it comes in the form of an insightful piece of literature with stylistic brilliance and complex characters.  (I'm looking at you, Dostoevsky!)  I used to fancy myself the sort of philosopher that could tackle Kant or Kierkegaard (intellectually, not physicall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21907180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is written by the polemicist Badiou not the set theorist Badiou - intended for a more popular audience it's written with a flourish which would be exasperating in a more scholarly work and is extremely readable for it. There's a lot of gloss over his ontology and his Lacanian fundamentals, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24537044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not understand a lick of this book when I read it as an undergraduate. Then I picked it up after finishing a masters in philosophy and it seemed like a walk in the park. Not for the uninitiated, but still a decent text for the aspiring graduate student who has been versed in post-modern though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72041731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ch. 1-3 are necessary to clear some dead wood from the professional philosophical scene, but for essential thinking, they're sterile polemic.  (We will not cease reading Levinas, and will read him all the better for the contributions of <em>Being and Event.</em>) 4&amp;5 are essential.  Hallward's Introduction i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26590126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another challenging (but short) work by Badiou.  Whether you agree with him or not, he will challenge the very frameworks by which you understand such discursive fields as 'Ethics'.  His comments on issues like &quot;the Rights of Man,&quot; &quot;Ethics of Otherness&quot; (like that of Levinas), &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1275797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The two stars are probably no fault of Badiou, but of my inability to understand continental philosophy -- the majority of which is nonsensical to me.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You can get this from reading the blurbs on the back, but this piece is at its best when dismantling neo-liberal ethics and highlighting how flimsy and superficial the Western multicultural moral compass is.  When it comes time to put forward a new theory on ethics, the piece falters a bit.  In a wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29875108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A man who knows what he thinks and says it. An, uh, event ;-)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this several years ago, but decided to go back to it and was amazed at how much I enjoyed it. Badiou's powers of formal argument are formidable, and he provides a strong critique of the current culture of &quot;ethics&quot; common in philosophy, politics, and a general cultural awareness of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11162259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An extraordinary essay in which Badiou challenges the foundations of Western ethics and their ties to social forces through recognition of the Other. A slightly superfluous translator's introduction and a lucid interview are appended to Badiou's brief, dense text.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy crap!  I better come back to this some day cause I got very little out of it.  Someone read this and explain it to me cause it was written in two weeks and it took me that long just to read the damned thing.]]></body>
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