| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Polemics // Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cecile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Corcoran. |
| Author: |
Badiou, Alain. |
| other author: |
Winter, Cecile. |
| Published: |
London ;Verso, : 2006., |
| Description: |
xxiii, 339 p. ;20 cm. |
| Notes: |
"'Part one' first published as Circonstances 1 in 2003 ... and Circonstances 2 in 2004 ... ; 'Part two' first published as Circonstances 3 ... 'Part three' first published as 'La commune de Paris' and La revolution culturelle' ..."--T.p. verso. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
PT. 1. PHILOSOPHY AND CIRCUMSTANCES: Introduction -- 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 -- Notes to part one -- PT. 2. USES OF THE WORD 'JEW': Introduction -- 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 Cecile Winter) -- 9. The word 'Jew' and the sycophant -- Notes to part two -- 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) -- Notes to part three. |
| Subject: |
Political science - Philosophy. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2007270549.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2007270549.html |
| ISBN: |
1844670899 (hbk.) : |