Badiou, Balibar, Rancière : rethinking emancipation / Nick Hewlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewlett, Nick.

Series:

Continuum studies in continental philosophy

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Democracy.

Equality.

Badiou, Alain.

Rancière, Jacques.

Balibar, Étienne, 1942-.

Balibar, Étienne.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xiii, 179 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2007]

Summary:

In recent years there has been increased interest in three contemporary French philosophers, all former students of Louis Althusser and each now an influential thinker in his own right. Alain Badiou is one of the most important living continental thinkers, well-known for his pioneering theory of the Event. Etienne Balibar has forged new approaches to democracy, citizenship and what he describes as 'equaliberty'. Jacques Ranciere has crossed boundaries between history, politics and aesthetics and his work is beginning to receive the attention it deserves.

Nick Hewlett brings these three thinkers together, examining the political aspects of their work. He argues that in each of their systems there are useful and insightful elements that make real contributions to the understanding of the modern history of politics and to the understanding of contemporary politics. But he also identifies and explores problems in each of Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere's work, arguing that none offers a wholly convincing approach.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Note on translations

Abbreviations

Contexts and parameters

Three characteristics of modern French thought

The legacy of Louis Althusser

Concluding remarks

Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth

The role of philosophy

Truth

The event, movement and change

The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics

Politics, the event and truth procedures

Against and beyond the postmodern

Marxism and historical materialism

Democracy

Parliamentary politics

Badiou's political activism

Jacques Rancière: politics is equality is democracy

Listening to the unheard

Liberal democracy and language

Defining the political

Democracy and post-democracy

Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty and the dilemmas of modernity

The political

Ambivalence, universality, ideology

Political violence

Lenin and Gandhi

With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancière

References and bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780826498618

0826498612

OCLC:

85783266