Overview: Examines the four truths of Alain Badiou’s core thinking: art, science, love, and politics.Identifies dilemmas in Badiou‘s work.Proposes a way to think beyond these dilemmas, and encourages the reader.This book on Alain Badiou’s philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth. By defining four procedures as conditions of philosophy,
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