false 43295366 732157 218845 1859844359 9781859844359 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172799025m/218845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172799025s/218845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218845.Ethics_An_Essay_on_the_Understanding_of_Evil 3.91 127 Badiou proposes a positive doctrine that he calls "The Ethic of Truths," ultimately arguing that "there is no ethics in general." Instead, there are only "processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation." The book's main failing is its length. It is simply too short to do justice to the panoply of literature on ethics or to inoculate Badiou against a host of objections that are lurking nearby. Nonetheless, his reasoning is powerful and surprising, marking some of the best writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are impeccable. He teaches at the École normale supérieure in Paris and is author of a half dozen well-regarded books on a range of philosophical topics. --Eric de Place

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