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For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism (Diaeresis) by Frank Ruda; Slavoj Žižek is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism (Diaeresis) about?

For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou’s thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou’s philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badiou’s project—especially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx—and on whose work Badiou has developed his provocative philosophy. Ruda draws from Badiou’s oeuvre a series of directives with regard to renewing philosophy for the twenty-first century. For Badiou continues the interrogations of its subject and raises new materialistic and dialectical questions for the next generation of engaged philosophers. ** Review "Now that materialism has become common academic coin, it is time to take a hard look at the various current forms materialism takes and what, if anything, they retain of its contestatory value. Assuming this critical task with wit and lucidity, Frank Ruda also delivers here a highly compelling account of the work of Alain Badiou, not only one of our foremost philosophers but a rigorous, if paradoxical, defender of  materialist dialectics."--

Author

Frank Ruda; Slavoj Žižek

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810130883

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics