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ISBN-10: 0231176066
ISBN-13: 9780231176064
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 01/31/2023
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.80" W, 1.50" H

Images of the Present Time

Translator: Susan Spitzer
Introduction by: Kenneth Reinhard

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Price: $35.00

Overview

Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.” In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one’s own time–that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future.

Featuring some of the philosopher’s most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou’s thought.

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Thinking the present in, through, and against the image, Alain Badiou proposes and enacts a comedic philosophy attuned to now's urgent absurdities. It's a pleasure to move with the sharp curve and fissure of his thinking. Badiou's Seminars are a major event in and for contemporary philosophy.

–Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
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Details

ISBN-10: 0231176066
ISBN-13: 9780231176064
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 01/31/2023
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.80" W, 1.50" H
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