Translated and with an Introduction by Steve Corcoran

Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With critical insight and polemical skill, Badiou considers how language becomes judgement, which judgements form opinion, how opinions harden into propaganda, and which propaganda becomes the dominant power. With wit and profundity, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.

“Badiou is by turns speculative, provocative—and droll.” — Times Literary Supplement

Praise for Ethics
“Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda.” — Terry Eagleton

Alain Badiou is the author of Being and Event, Ethics, Metapolitics, Infinite Thought and Handbook of Inaesthetic. He teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His The Meaning of Sarkozy is forthcoming from Verso.

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