Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere

Re-Thinking Emancipation
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9861-8
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

This exciting new monograph examins the important contributions of three giants of contemporary French thought to the field of political theory.

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 Rancière 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 Rancière’s work, arguing that none offers a wholly convincing approach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hewlett, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Alain Badiou's Theory of the Event
3. The Paradoxes of Alain Badiou's Theory of Politics
4. Race, Nation, Subjecthood: Etienne Balibar
5. Politics is Equality is Democracy: Jacques Rancière
6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Hewlett is Professor of French Studies and Chair of the Department at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous publications include Modern French Politics (Polity Press, 1998), Contemporary France: Politics, Economics and Society Since 1945 (with Jill Forbes and François Nectoux, Longman, 2000) and Democracy in Modern France (Continuum, 2003)