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9780748643752

Badiou and Plato An Education by Truths

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  • ISBN13:

    9780748643752

  • ISBN10:

    0748643753

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-29
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Summary

An interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain BadiouThis is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that philosophy today requires a 'platonic gesture'. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: 'what is education?'Key featureso Corrects many errors in the existing commentary on Badiou's worko Extracts a key Platonic theme crucial at every level of culture today: education

Author Biography


A.J. Bartlett is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents


Introduction: Trajectory

1. State
2. Site
3. Event/Intervention
4. Fidelity
5. Subject
6. Generic

Epilogue

Bibliography
Index

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