Манифест философии

by Alain Badiou, Ален Бадью

"Манифест философии" Алена Бадью в сжатой и энергичной форме представляет одно из значительнейших событий в истории новейшей мысли-глобальную "философию события", реализующую небывалый по дерзости замысел: в эпоху пресловутого "конца философии" сделать еще один шаг и, повторив жест Платона, заново отстроить философию в качестве универсальной доктрины, обусловленной положениями науки, искусства, политики и любви и обеспечивающей им возможность гармоничного сосуществования. В качестве Приложений в издание включены тексты посвященного обсуждению концепций Бадью круглого стола (в котором приняли участие Ф.Лаку-Лабарт, Ж.Рансьер, Ж.-Ф.Лиотар) и непосредственно примыкающие к нему уточнения авторской позиции.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Alain Badiou, Ph.D., born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School EGS. Alain Badiou was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation.