Greece and the Reinvention of Politics
«In the past few years, Alain Badiou's oeuvre has imposed itself as the most significant philosophical import from the Continent.»
Alberto Toscano, author of <i>Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea</i>, The British Journal of Sociology
In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", with much to tell us about the wider situation. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Verso Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 112
- ISBN
- 9781786634177
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«In the past few years, Alain Badiou's oeuvre has imposed itself as the most significant philosophical import from the Continent.»
Alberto Toscano, author of <i>Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea</i>, The British Journal of Sociology
«Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.»
Times Higher Education Supplement
«Whatever his pessimistic assessments of the contemporary situation (St Paul in the place of Lenin?), Badiou's emphasis on activity and production, his insistence on fidelity as the resurrected of the dormant Events of a seemingly extinct political praxis, can only be energizing for us.»
Fredric Jameson, New Left Review
«One of the most important philosophers writing today.»
Joan Copjec
«A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!»
Slavoj Zizek
«An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.»
New Statesman
«Badiou's sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent.»
Guardian
«A thinker of tremendously invigorating moral fervour, able to rise to Swiftian scorn or fine Cocteau-like flourishes. Badiou's passionate belief in human autonomy is inspiring.»
Daily Telegraph
«Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda.»
Terry Eagleton
«French philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned.»
Jonathan Rée, Prospect
«Magnificently stirring. A characteristically lucid polemic from a philosopher who is far from willing to abandon humanity to the vicissitudes of so-called global capitalism.»
Mark Fisher, Frieze
«Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.»
BBC HARDtalk
«Greece has long been a country with 'too much history,' a harbinger of broader developments in Europe. In the course of its recent crisis it provided the testing ground for several political approaches. Failure was general, but none was greater than the abject capitulation of Syriza. Alain Badiou surveys the wreckage calmly and with sadness, seeking the reinvention of a radical and class-based politics. This is indeed what Europe needs today, and the only positive outcome from the Syriza debacle.»
Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, University of London