Ahmed the Philosopher

Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children & Everyone Else
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16693-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France.

Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the "treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badiou, Alain

Weitere Mitwirkende

Litvak, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed philosopheTranslator's Introduction: Badiou the Comedian/Ahmed the PhilosopherAhmed the PhilosopherNotes

Leseproben

Read an excerpt from Ahmed the Philosopher

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, and professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He has published many philosophical works, including Being and Event and Logics of Worlds, as well as the play Incident at Antioch: A Tragedy in Three Acts.

Joseph Litvak is professor of English at Tufts University.