Badiou, Balibar, Rancière : rethinking emancipation /: rethinking emancipation. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nick Hewlett.
• Other Names: Hewlett, Nick
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- Note on translations -- Abbreviations -- Contexts and parameters -- Three characteristics of modern French thought -- The legacy of Louis Althusser -- Concluding remarks -- Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth -- The role of philosophy -- Truth -- The event, movement and change -- Concluding remarks -- The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics -- Politics, the event and truth procedures -- Against and beyond the postmodern -- Marxism and historical materialism -- Democracy -- Parliamentary politics -- Badiou's political activism -- Concluding remarks -- Jacques Rancière: politics is equality is democracy -- Listening to the unheard -- Liberal democracy and language -- Defining the political -- Democracy and post-democracy -- Concluding remarks -- Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty and the dilemmas of modernity -- The political -- Ambivalence, universality, ideology -- Political violence -- Lenin and Gandhi -- Concluding remarks -- With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancière -- References and bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum International Pub. Group
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages)
• Subjects: 320.092/244; Political science -- Philosophy; Democracy; Equality; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory; Democracy; Equality; Intellectual life; Political science -- Philosophy; Democratie; Gelijkheidsbeginsel; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; France; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441192721; 1441192727; 1282452614; 9781282452619; 9781472546142; 1472546148
• Related ISBNs: 9780826498618; 0826498612; 9781441109675; 9781441121837
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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