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Can politics be thought? ;, followed by, Of an obscure disaster : on the end of the truth of the state, Alain Badiou ; translated and with an introduction by Bruno Bosteels

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Can politics be thought? ;, followed by, Of an obscure disaster : on the end of the truth of the state, Alain Badiou ; translated and with an introduction by Bruno Bosteels

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Can politics be thought? ;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

317774

Responsibility statement

Alain Badiou ; translated and with an introduction by Bruno Bosteels

Sub title

followed by, Of an obscure disaster : on the end of the truth of the state

Summary

In Can Politics Be Thought?--published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time--Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou argues for the continuation of Marxist politics. In so doing, he shows why we need to recapture the emancipatory hypothesis of Marx's original gesture in order to actualize its radical potential. This volume also includes Badiou's "Of an Obscure Disaster: On the End of the Truth of the State, " in which he rebuts claims of Communism's death after the fall of the Soviet Union

Table Of Contents

Can politics be thought? Threshold ; Destruction ; Recomposition -- Of an obscure disaster: on the end of the truth of the state

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Of an obscure disaster, on the end of the truth of the stateOn the end of the truth of the state

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