A. J. Bartlett

Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths

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This is not a work of commentary but an intervention: by actualising the categories of Badiou's Being and Event, Bartlett subverts the Aristotelian biases of Plato scholarship and exposes the sophistical basis of contemporary ideologies of education. The result brilliantly exemplifies the transformative import of Badiou's Platonism.Ray Brassier, American University of BeirutUsing the concepts of Alain Badiou, this work interrogates Plato's concept of education.Alain Badiou makes the claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'. Drawing upon the concepts and categories developed by Badiou that support this claim, A. J. Bartlett pr… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4744-1030-4
EAN: 9781474410304
Produktnummer: 18145250
Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.8 cm 458 g
Gewicht: 458

Über den Autor

A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).