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The Communist Hypothesis (Pocket Communism)
Alain Badiou
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Description for The Communist Hypothesis (Pocket Communism)
Paperback. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy. This title presents a hypothesis that is partly a demand to reconceptualize communism after the twin deaths of the Soviet Union and neoliberalism, and also a demand for universal emancipation. Series: Pocket Communism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural" character of the most monstrous inequalities." Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas ... Read more
"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural" character of the most monstrous inequalities." Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Pocket Communism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688700
SKU
V9781781688700
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About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, ... Read more
Reviews for The Communist Hypothesis (Pocket Communism)
A Little Red Book for our time?
Platypus
An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
Lucy Wadham
New Statesman
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.
Times Higher Education Supplement
Platypus
An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
Lucy Wadham
New Statesman
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.
Times Higher Education Supplement