{"product_id":"the-adventure-of-french-philosophy","title":"The Adventure of French Philosophy","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Adventure of French Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the \u0026amp;ldquo;French moment\u0026amp;rdquo; in contemporary thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBadiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser\u0026amp;rsquo;s canonical works \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e and the scathing critique of \u0026amp;ldquo;potato fascism\u0026amp;rdquo; in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari\u0026amp;rsquo;s \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Plateaus\u003c\/i\u003e. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972523626784,"sku":"9781844677931","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781844677931.jpg?v=1764173712","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-adventure-of-french-philosophy","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}