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Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 367 pp. NAP. First published in German in 2001; this copy in English, First Thus, Stated: "This edition. . .2011". Contents divided into 6 Chapters: (1) "Towards a Philosophy of Overreaction"; (2) "Neither Sun nor Death: The Human-Park Speech and Its Aftermath"; (3) "On the General Poetics of Space: On Spheres I"; (4) "I Prophesize Another Past for Philosophy: On Spheres II"; (5) "The Work on Resistance"; (6) "Amphibical Anthropology and Informal Thinking"; Bibliography, pp. 353-362; Index, pp. 363-367. Glossy orange wrappers with full front cover illustration of a large room with shadowy, small human figures standing, conversing, or sprawled on the floor, dead, with a large chartreuse circle (sun) at top center front cover; Author Names and Title lettering in white on top half, left, front cover; gray inside front covers; white spine with black lettering; white full rear cover Author bio and small color photo-portrait, Publisher's blurb. Micro bump to front cover lower right cover corner and small (1/4") light bump to rear cover lower left corner, looking like incurred in book manufacture: Essentially As New: Tight binding (NO creases); essentially, sharp corners; NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Crisp. Solid.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 2nd Edition. owner's name in pen, else As New. 106 pages ; 20 cm Contents: Introduction -- From victorious democracy to criminal democracy -- Politics, or the Lost Shepherd -- Democracy, republic, representation -- The rationality of a hatred.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 340 pages. Published in 2006. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Alain Badiou's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alain Badiou's "Polemics" in a felicitous English translation. His political and philosophical essays. "Brilliant reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and re-orienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq Wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment, and propaganda, and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force" (Publisher's blurb). His philosophical approach is part mathematical (Cantor's Set Theory), part rationalist (Analytic Philosophy), and part poetic (Continental Philosophy). Were it not for Alain Badiou's revaluation of "experience" (in the historical rather than personal sense) in subsequent volumes such as "Polemics", his "Being And Event" masterwork would have been relegated to mere academicism by the constipated and self-absorbed tendentiousness of his attempt to unite Continental with British ("Anglo-American") philosophy. Instead, radical and all-encompassing, Badiou's oeuvre now towers over contemporary philosophy as a grand Romantic gesture in the manner not seen since Sartre. An absolute "must-have" title for Alain Badiou collectors. This title is a brilliant collection. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and despite its imperfection (rubbing on all-white DJ, a publisher's flaw) is still in fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALAIN BADIOU TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1844670899. no.