Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)
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Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
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Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including Absolutely Postcolonial, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, and Damming the Flood.
Title: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)
Author: Alain Badiou
ISBN: 9781781680186
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Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
Number of Pages: 224
Weight: 0.2405 kg
This is a fiery little book. -Choice
His reasoning is powerful and surprising, making some of the best writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are impeccable. -Amazon.com
Badiou is at his strongest in pointing to the inconsistencies of a facile multiculturalism, the pluralism of the food court and the shopping mall, which wilts in the face of any genuine expression of cultural hostility to liberal values. -Radical Philosophy
His lively, stimulating and sometimes completely batty book is an attempt to make us think differently about what matters to us ... it is hard not to feel some sympathy for Badiou's intuition that 'morality', 'evil' and indeed much of our standard moral vocabulary often serve as almost deliberate disguises for mediocre policy-making, social complacency and a general lack of adventurousness about life -Times Literary Supplement
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