Ebook {Epub PDF} The Century by Alain Badiou

 · badiou writes beautifully about art-- particularly poetry-- and does a rather masterful recap of the 20th century's overarching ideologies. the book is at its best when he reckons with the unfinished business of the century-- in particular, how modern, free market democracies either repress or awkwardly maintain many of its earlier urges. that said, a number of his philosophical conclusions are 4/5(25). 5 rows · Overview. Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of Brand: Alain Badiou. the shackles of superstition and “ignorance.” Alain Badiou’s book, The Century, concerns the question of what happened to derail the Enlightenment, Humanism, and all the promise of a Prometheus that was now unchained. The ghost of Nietzsche is everywhere in Badiou’s work. Therefore, to make sense of the.

Read reviews and buy The Century - by Alain Badiou (Hardcover) at Target. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Free standard shipping with $35 orders. Expect More. Pay Less. The Century is a book about politics, philosophy and literature by Alain Badiou, first published in French by Éditions du Seuil in ; the English translation by Alberto Toscano was published by Polity Press in The thirteen chapters of the book are presented as lessons derived from a seminar Badiou gave at the College International de Philosophie between This review essay explores Alain Badiou's paradoxical attempt to give a philosophical account of the 20th century (in his text The Century) which is not understood along the lines of history. As a.

The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou's proposal is to reopen the dossier on the century - not from the angle of those wise and sated judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the century itself. The 20th century has been judged and condemned as the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and dangerous ideologies, of empty illusions and mass genocides. In this major new book Badiou undertakes to re-examine this century through an immanent investigation of the century itself in its unfolding. badiou writes beautifully about art-- particularly poetry-- and does a rather masterful recap of the 20th century's overarching ideologies. the book is at its best when he reckons with the unfinished business of the century-- in particular, how modern, free market democracies either repress or awkwardly maintain many of its earlier urges. that said, a number of his philosophical conclusions are disappointingly familiar, and perhaps even a bit nostalgic. his call for a turn towards 'the.