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Author: Alain Badiou
ISBN: 9780231166928

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Título Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else
Autor Alain Badiou; Joseph Litvak (Translator)
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Páginas 216
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Columbia University Press
Fecha de publicación 2014-04-29
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780231166928 / 0231166923
Peso 1.01 libras (0.46 kg)
Dimensiones 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 pulgadas (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2013035269
Dewey Decimal Code 842.914

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Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).

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New. 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… Leer más