Metapolitics
by Alain Badiou
List Price:
Our Price: $8.87
You Save: $7.08 (44%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.49 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Alain BadiouTranslator: Jason Barker
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-17
ISBN: 184467567X
Number of pages: 159
Publisher: Verso
Book Reviews of Metapolitics
Book Review: Consistently interesting but not always substantiated
Summary: 3 Stars
Badiou is a consistently interesting thinker. I find very intriguing his idea that politics needs to work at the level of thinkability and not at the level of material practice. To align politics with thought, he turns to a language of naming, a language that refers not to what things are, but what things could possibly be. Names must be localized within multiplicities. In abstract terms, this makes sense. But what would this look like on the ground? But perhaps my need to ask this question betrays my leanings towards politics rather than a metapolitics. Chapters can be hard to follow, and can presume conceptual clarity rather than provide it.
Philosophy Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Philosophy Books
Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker (Penguin Philosophy)by F. C. Copleston
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1956-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.33
Price in other shops:
Janus: A Summing Upby Arthur Koestler
Hutchinson; Published: 1978-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $234.74
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Ageby Theodore Schick, Lewis Vaughn
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Published: 2010-02-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $42.99
Philosophy: The Power Of Ideas with Free Philosophy PowerWebby Brooke Noel Moore, Ken Bruder
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Published: 2002-05-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.50
The Elements of Moral Philosophyby James Rachels
McGraw-Hill College; Published: 1999; Paperback; Book
Critical Thinking with Free Student CD and PowerWeb: Critical Thinkingby Brooke Noel Moore, Richard Parker
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Published: 2003-08-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.00
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experienceby James P. Carse
HarperOne; Published: 1995-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.49
Price in other shops:
The History of God CDby Karen Armstrong
HarperAudio; Published: 2004-02-17; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $18.48
Price in other shops:
A Day in the Life of Indiaby Michael Tobias, Raghu Rai
Harper; Published: 1996-10-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $64.34
Science and the Modern Worldby Whitehead
Free Press; Published: 1967-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Polemicsby Alain Badiou
Verso; Published: 2006-11-17; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.90
Price in other shops:
Logics of Worlds (Being and Event, 2)by Alain Badiou
Continuum Pub Group; Published: 2008-11-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.07
Price in other shops:
Manifesto for Philosophy: Followed by Two Essays: "the (Re)Turn of Philosophy Itself" and "Definition of Philosophy" (Suny Series, Intersections, Philosophy and Critical Theory)by Alain Badiou
State University of New York Press; Published: 1999-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.66
Price in other shops:
Leviathan (Penguin Classics)by Thomas Hobbes
Penguin Classics; Published: 1982-02-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.37
Price in other shops:
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)by Alain Badiou
Stanford University Press; Published: 2003-05-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.00
Price in other shops:
Commonwealthby Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Published: 2011-04-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.94
Price in other shops:
The Concept of the Political: Expanded Editionby Carl Schmitt
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2007-05-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.04
Price in other shops:
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evilby Alain Badiou
Verso; Published: 2002-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.83
Price in other shops:
Disagreement: Politics And Philosophyby Jacques Ranciere
University of Minnesota Press; Published: 2004-12-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.69
Price in other shops:
First As Tragedy, Then As Farceby Slavoj iek
Verso; Published: 2009-10-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.32
Price in other shops: