Buy this book on-line Badiou, Alain (Translated by Cecile Winter And Steve Corcoran) : PolemicsVerso Books, London, England, 2006 ISBN 1844670899
First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 340 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Alain Badiou's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alain Badiou's "Polemics" in a felicitous English translation. His political and philosophical essays. "Brilliant reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and re-orienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq Wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment, and propaganda, and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force" (Publisher's blurb). His approach is part mathematical (Candor's Set Theory), part rationalist (Analytic Philosophy), and part poetic (Continental Philosophy). Radical (in the best sense of the word) and all-encompassing, Badiou's oeuvre towers over all of contemporary Continental philosophy as a grand Romantic gesture in a manner not seen since Sartre. An absolute "must-have" title for Alain Badiou collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALAIN BADIOU AND GILLES DELEUZE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1844670899. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Badiou, Alain (Translated by Cecile Winter And Steve Corcoran) : Polemics. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, livres rares, livres illustrées, libri rari and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |