Ethics - An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
ISBN: 9781781680186
Language: english
Size: 129*197
Weight: 250 g
Page no.: 168
Publish year: 2013
Ethics - An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
One of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn.
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
“Badiou is at his strongest in pointing to the inconsistencies of a facile multiculturalism, the pluralism of the food court and the shopping mall, which wilts in the face of any genuine expression of cultural hostility to liberal values.” ( Radical Philosophy)