Ethics An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

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    Alain Badiou

    Publisher: Verso

    Year: 2013

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 224 pages

    ISBN: 9781781680186

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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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“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

Book Details

Author: Alain Badiou
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781781680186
Size: 224 pages
Publisher: Verso
Year: 2013

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