Je vous sais si nombreux (Essais)

by Alain Badiou

Esperons, agissons. N'importe qui, n'importe ou, peut commencer a faire de la politique vraie, au sens que lui donne le present texte. Et parler, a son tour, autour de lui, de ce qu'il a fait. C'est ainsi que tout commence.
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Genres: Philosophy, Politics

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2017

About the author

Alain Badiou, Ph.D., born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School EGS. Alain Badiou was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Badiou’s purpose here is to take stock of the current situation, the reign of global capitalism, and all that it threatens in a very straight forward argument. Badiou closes out the book with thirteen theses on future movement building for the goal of taking humanity into a communist future. Think of these as a priori necessary conditions for politics and those who participate in them to adhere to for success based on summation of past struggles.

Overall, this is what one would expect from Badiou. Think of it as a more concise version of Rebirth of History, updated to included recent happenings in the world.

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much more of a radical communist than I thought, although one should admit that the present neo-liberal hegemony has plenty of structural problems that should be addressed.

[Julian Zaragoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Second half absolutely bangs

[Funda Guzer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kompakt hap niyetine .