Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Alain Badiou
214 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1859844359
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Language: English
Publish: December 1, 2002
20th CenturyClassicsContemporaryCulturalEssaysFranceNonfictionPhilosophyPoliticsTheory
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil.”