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A New Dawn for Politics

By Alain Badiou
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In A New Dawn for Politics, Alain Badiou challenges the illusion of a unified global world created by capitalism, revealing instead a fragmented reality of fenced regions and exclusion. He asserts the necessity of recognising a single world of living subjects, rich with infinite differences and identities, where foreigners are not threats but vital signifiers of the world's youthful diversity. Through a series of incisive essays, Badiou explores the political implications of current social movements, advocating for politics as a new dawn of existence grounded in this fundamental principle.
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Ideal for readers engaged with contemporary social and political thought, activists, students of political philosophy, and anyone interested in the challenges and opportunities posed by globalisation and social movements.

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"A leading philosopher reflects on recent developments and outlines a radical political vision for the future"--

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What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls built to keep some people out. In place of this falsely unified world of global capitalism, we need to assert a fundamental principle – namely, that there is one world of living subjects. This, in Badiou's view, is the categorical imperative of all true politics.

The one world of living subjects is the place where an infinity of differences and identities exist. Hence foreigners are not a problem but rather an opportunity and a gift. They bear witness to the youth of the world in its infinite variety, and it is with this youth that the politics of the future rests. Foreignness is the means by which existence is re-evaluated, and all true politics is a new dawn of existence.

This collection of essays by Badiou, in which he draws out the political implications of recent events and social movements, will be of value to anyone interested in the great social and political questions of our time.

Explore these insights in A New Dawn for Politics by Alain Badiou.

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"Badiou once again demonstrates the necessity of communism for thought. Nothing less than a new dialectical materialism is capable of breaking free from the present's ideological confinement." — Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging "Badiou's great attempt to show us how to think, to act, and to write as revolutionaries in order to create a society, planet, a new age where Good prevails." — Inscriptions "Elegant and provocative." — Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509553006

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Robin Mackay

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 193.0mm

Weight: 249g

Pages: 150

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About the Author

Alain Badiou is a philosopher, mathematician and novelist who lives in Paris.

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