Book cover for Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou

Ethics

An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

2014 Released
224 Pages
3-4 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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VersoISBN 9781781680308
Translated by Peter Hallward

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.

Peter Hallward

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Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including Absolutely Postcolonial, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, and Damming the Flood.

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