by Alain Badiou · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081231399
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«Second manifeste pour la philosophie» is Alain Badiou's philosophical essay, published by Flammarion in paperback (130 pages, in French).
Against philosophy turned into a media spectacle, Badiou argues that the current threat is not its disappearance but its artificial and empty existence. The essay seeks to separate it from conservative morality and champions truths capable of illuminating action beyond the figure of man and his rights.
2010 edition in Flammarion's Champs essais collection (no. 957).
For readers of contemporary philosophy interested in Alain Badiou's thought and the debate on the public role of philosophy.
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought. Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of universalism and truth. His work is notable for his widespread applications of various conceptions of indifference. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force.
