Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change

by Adrian Johnston

Book Overview

Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially interested in asking what consequences the supposed twentieth-century demise of communism entails for leftist political theory in the early twenty-first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125706
• ISBN13: 9780810125704
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"