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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers) by Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers) about?
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.
Who reads Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781680308
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Religion, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers) (1994)
- Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Wo Es War) (2001)
- Ethics : an Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2001)
- Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Wo Es War) (2002)
- L'éthique : essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)
- L'éthique : Essai Sur la Conscience Du Mal (2003)
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