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Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy

by Alain Badiou Translated by Bruno Bosteels

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy and anatomizes the “antiphilosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein’s thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels’s introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescapable for contemporary philosophy.

Paperback, 320 pages

ISBN: 9781844672240

January 2013

$22.95

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Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN: 9781844676941

June 2011

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“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us. ”

– Slavoj Zizek
“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. ”

– New Statesman

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