Bøger af Alain Badiou

Etik er i dag blevet nihilismens figur. Det er ikke mere kampen for det gode og det gode liv, men er blevet til ren overlevelse. Etikken har spaltet sig ud og klynger sig blot til det, der tilfældigvis sker i videnskaberne, medierne og samfundet. Enhver virksomhed har i dag sin egen etik. Selv krigen har sin egen etik i form af menneskerettighederne. Men disse rettigheder er kun mindsterettigheder, hvis underliggende præmis er, at det eneste, der kan ske for mennesket er døden. Disse nøgterne konklusioner drager en af tidens vigtigste stemmer, filosoffen Alain Badiou, i Etikken. Badiou viser i denne bog hvordan de højt besungne "menneskerettigheder", men også sådan noget som "anerkendelse" og "demokrati" er tomme floskler, der dækker over en underkuelse af menneskets potentiale.Etikken er noget så sjældent som en polemisk genistreg og et letlæst filosofisk hovedværk på samme tid. Alain Badiou nøjes nemlig ikke med at kritisere, men udvikler selv en ny etik. Han mener, at mennesket er et udødeligt væsen, der er i stand til at skabe og opleve sandheder. Disse sandheder er dog ikke givet på forhånd, men opstår gennem enestående nyskabelser eller begivenheder. Det kan være den franske revolution, studenteroprøret i 1968, en forelskelse, et digt eller et matematisk bevis. Sandheden er noget, der er til for alle: høj som lav, sort som hvid, østlig som vestlig. Og den etiske opgave er netop at søge sandheden. Som Badiou på engageret vis formulerer det: "Elsk det, som du aldrig vil kunne tro to gange!".Alain Badiou er født i Rabat, 1937. Han underviser på École Normale Supérieur i Paris og besætter René Descartes Chair ved the European Graduate School. Etikken er fra 1993 og hans mest solgte bog til dato. Den er oversat til norsk, tysk, hollandsk, spansk, græsk og engelsk.Bogen er oversat af Holger Ross Lauritsen, den indeholder et nyskrevet forord af Alain Badiou og et efterskrift af Brian Benjamin Hansen.

”Lykke er en risiko, som vi er nødt til at tage.” Den franske filosof Alain Badiou angriber i denne lille bog den forestilling, at lykke er et spørgsmål om at skabe overensstemmelse mellem sine personlige behov og det, som verden tilbyder os og kategoriserer som ”det gode liv”. Han opponerer mod den positive psykologi og “lykkeindustrien”, der fortæller os, at det gælder det om at planlægge livet efter forskrifterne for, hvad der giver den største sikkerhed for at opnå lykke. Men ifølge Badiou er lykke præcis det modsatte af sikkerhed og planlægning. Lykke involverer altid en risiko, som fx når vi i kærlighedsmødet vælger at overgive os til dets uforudsigelighed. For at det, Badiou kalder ”reel lykke”, kan blive mulig, kræves også et opgør med den (forbruger-)tilfredshed, der ifølge Badiou præsenteres som lykke i dag. Opgaven med at skabe lykke finder dermed sted både på det individuelle og på det kollektive, politiske plan. Og den går ud på at blive noget, vi ikke troede, vi var i stand til at blive og at skabe en fælles verden, som vi ikke troede var mulig.

The author takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of an obsession with identity and self.

Alain Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's thought at a key moment and a lively interrogation of Malebranche's key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace.

This volume presents a new proposal for the link between philosophy and art. Badiou identifies and rejects the three schemes of didacticism, romanticism, and classicism that he sees as having governed traditional "aesthetics," and seeks a fourth mode of accounting for the educative value of works of art.

»Den overbevisning, at enhver udelukkende forfølger sin egen interesse, er ... vidt udbredt i verden idag. Kærligheden er et modbevis« - Alain Badiou.Alain Badiou er en af de mest markante nyere filosoffer i Frankrig. Hans værker har opnået international anerkendelse og opmærksomhed. Badiou har en central plads i den danske forskning og debat vedrørende mange emner, såsom etik, politik, metafysik og matematik.Lovprisning af Kærligheden er en let redigeret samtale mellem Alain Badiou og Nicolas Truong. Denne samtale fandt sted på bastilledagen i 2008 og omhandlede ikke Staten, Hæren eller Nationen, men derimod kærligheden som en kosmopolitisk kraft.

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present."

Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark text and revives its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has instead worked closely on the original Greek and, through spectacular changes, adapted it to our times. In this innovative reimagining of Plato's work, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek society--from lengthy exchanges about moral courage in archaic poetry to political considerations mainly of interest to the aristocratic elite--and has expanded the range of cultural references. Here, philosophy is firing on all cylinders: Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud, and Hegel, among others. Together these thinkers demonstrate that true philosophy endures, ready to absorb new horizons without changing its essence. Moreover, Badiou--who is also a dramatist--has transformed the Socratic dialogue into a genuine oratorial contest. In his version of the Republic, the interlocutors do much more than simply agree with Socrates. They argue, stand up to him, put him on the spot, and show thought in motion. In this work of dramatic scholarship and philosophy, we encounter a modern version of Plato's text that is alive, stimulating, and directly relevant to our own world.

Alain Badioüs 1983¿1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant¿a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.

Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "e;the present."e; In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time-that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future.Featuring some of the philosopher's most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou's thought.

Hvem var Paulus, og hvad er hans relevans i dag? Den franske filosof Alain Badiou cementerer Paulus som en central og vedkommende figur, ikke kun for kristne og ikke kun i bibelsk tid, men for enhver i ”moderne politisk refleksion”.Paulus er relevant i dag netop på grund af hans budskab om universalisme, som Badiou fremhæver som det, der kan skabe fælles grund i vor tids polariserede debat. Paulus siger: ”Tænk ikke hver især på jeres eget, men tænk alle lige præcis på de andres el” (Filipperbrevet 2,4), og med det som udgangspunkt muliggør han eksistensen af både særidentitet og universalisme, i én og samme verden. Vi eksisterer i fællesskab, på grund af, og ikke på trods af, vores forskelle. Det er Kristusbegivenhedens radikale budskab ifølge ateisten Badious Paulus – og det henvender sig til os alle, med et universelt og aktivistisk budskab.Bogen er forsynet med en kyndigt efterskrift af Troels Engberg-Pedersen, professor i teologi og forfatter til bogen ‘Paulus og identitet’.

This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's writings to rethink a new kind of radical faith in truth as an event, as the advent of the incalculable, a modality that remakes the pairing religious/secular.

New and illuminating set of analyses of literature from one of France's most important living philosophers

Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics.

For Alain Badiou, theatreunlike cinemais the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship.This definitive collection includes not only Badious pamphlet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badious own work as a playwright, as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy.

Dissecting how facile accusations of "anti-Semitism"are used to stifle dissent.

Claims that the election of Nicholas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth.

Presents a comprehensive overview of Alain Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. It provides an introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

"Originally published in French as Maefiez-vous des blancs, habitants du rivage! ALibrairie Arthaeme Fayard, 2019."

Interviews originally conducted in French but first published in German under title: Feur eine Politik des Gemeinwohls.

In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.