Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-thinking Emancipation / Edition 1

by Nick Hewlett

Overview

Examines the important contributions of three giants of contemporary French thought to the field of political theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826498618
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/15/2007
Series:	Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy , #62
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nick Hewlett is Professor of French Studies and Chair of the Department at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous publications include Modern French Politics (Polity Press, 1998), Contemporary France: Politics, Economics and Society Since 1945 (with Jill Forbes and François Nectoux, Longman, 2000) and Democracy in Modern France (Continuum, 2003).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Alain Badiou's Theory of the Event
3. The Paradoxes of Alain Badiou's Theory of Politics
4. Race, Nation, Subjecthood: Etienne Balibar
5. Politics is Equality is Democracy: Jacques Rancière
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

'A subtle, uncluttered and suggestive series of interpretations which will do much to stimulate further reseearch into these innovative political philosophers.' - Political Studies Review

"[In] Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere...[Hewlett] provides a brief and clear presentation of their work, explaining the context in which it originated and, on that basis, it identifies perceived limitations in their theories." - Pablo Lafuente, Radical Philosophy, 2008

Mention - Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2008

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