Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Peter Hallward, Alain Badiou

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Peter Hallward, Alain Badiou

166 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights ...

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