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""Polemics" is a series of metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. Badiou considers how language becomes judgment, which judgments form opinion, how opinions harden into propaganda, and which propaganda becomes the dominant power. He presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.

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Political science, Philosophy, World politics, Jews, Public opinion, Politics and government, Political science, philosophy

Places

France

Times

20th century, 21st century, 1995-2007
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Table of Contents

pt. 1. Philosophy and circumstances. Philosophy and the question of war today: 1. On September 11 2001: philosophy and the "War against terrorism"
2. Fragments of a public journal on the American war against Iraq
3. On the war against Serbia : who strikes whom in the world today?
The "democratic" fetish and racism: 4. On parliamentary "democracy" : the French presidential elections of 2002
5. The law on the Islamic headscarf
6. Daily humiliation
Openings/Affirmations: 7. The power of the open : a discourse on the necessity of fusing Germany and France
8. Third sketch of a manifesto of affirmationist art
pt. 2. Uses of the word "Jew". 1. Israel : the country in the world where there are the fewest Jews?
2. The destruction of the European Jews and the question of evil (fragments from Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil, translated by Peter Hallward)
3. A dialogue between a Jew from Darzia and an Arab from Epirus
4. Saint Paul and the Jews (excerpt from Saint Paul: the foundation of universalism, translated by Ray Brassier)
5. Against negationism
6. Local angel
7. Intervew at the Daily Haaretz
8. The master-signifier of the New Aryans (by Cécile Winter)
9. The word "Jew" and the sycophant
pt. 3. Historicity of politics : lessons of two revolutions. 1. The Paris commune : a political declaration on politics
2. The cultural revolution : the last revolution?
A brief chronology of the cultural revolution (translated by Bruno Bosteels).

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"'Part one' first published as Circonstances 1 in 2003 ... and Circonstances 2 in 2004 ... ; 'Part two' first published as Circonstances 3 in 2005 ... 'Part three' first published as 'La commune de Paris' and 'La revolution culturelle' in 2003"--T.p. verso.

This translation originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.01
Library of Congress
JA71 .B25713 2011, JA71

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Pagination
xxiii, 339 p.
Number of pages
339

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31164990M
ISBN 10
184467763X
ISBN 13
9781844677634
LCCN
2014397170
OCLC/WorldCat
738350998

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OL23316437W

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