Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-thinking EmancipationIn 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. This is a must-have for students of contemporary continental philosophy. |
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... ment with Badiou , Balibar or Rancière , I have chosen to examine their work in part precisely because they each place the collective and rebellious action of ordinary people at the very heart of their phi- losophical systems , whilst ...
... ment with Badiou , Balibar or Rancière , I have chosen to examine their work in part precisely because they each place the collective and rebellious action of ordinary people at the very heart of their phi- losophical systems , whilst ...
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... ment of these three writers . But if I examine their thought qua thought in this way , I also do so as a means , ultimately , to assessing their relevance to the material , and broadly speaking political , world with a view to examining ...
... ment of these three writers . But if I examine their thought qua thought in this way , I also do so as a means , ultimately , to assessing their relevance to the material , and broadly speaking political , world with a view to examining ...
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... ment with mainstream politicians . This climate , I shall argue , has had an influence on the way in which Badiou , Balibar and Rancière's thought has evolved . The rapid growth of interest in the work of these thinkers in recent years ...
... ment with mainstream politicians . This climate , I shall argue , has had an influence on the way in which Badiou , Balibar and Rancière's thought has evolved . The rapid growth of interest in the work of these thinkers in recent years ...
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... ment of repression supporting ISAs ( 97–8 ) . Add to this Althusser's adoption of elements of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory in a section of his essay entitled ' Ideology is a " Representation 20 Badiou , Balibar , Rancière.
... ment of repression supporting ISAs ( 97–8 ) . Add to this Althusser's adoption of elements of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory in a section of his essay entitled ' Ideology is a " Representation 20 Badiou , Balibar , Rancière.
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... ment of its origins . Althusser's polemic against what he regarded as historicist and tel- eological versions of Marxism was influenced in part by Claude Lévi- Strauss ' structuralist anthropology , and possibly to a greater extent by ...
... ment of its origins . Althusser's polemic against what he regarded as historicist and tel- eological versions of Marxism was influenced in part by Claude Lévi- Strauss ' structuralist anthropology , and possibly to a greater extent by ...
Contents
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3 The Paradoxes of Alain Badious Theory of Politics | 47 |
Politics is Equality is Democracy | 84 |
Emancipation Equaliberty and the Dilemmas of Modernity | 116 |
6 With and Beyond Badiou Balibar and Rancière | 142 |
References and Bibliography | 155 |
Index | 173 |
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