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Ahmed the Philosopher : Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else / Alain Badiou.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231166935
  • 9780231536585
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ2662.A323 A7513 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed Philosophe -- Translator's Introduction -- Ahmed the Philosopher -- List of Scenes -- 1. Nothing -- 2. The Event -- 3. Language -- 4. Place -- 5. Cause and Effect -- 6. Politics -- 7. The Multiple -- 8. Chance -- 9. Poetry -- 10. The Subject (1) -- 11. The Big and the Little -- 12. Infinity -- 13. Time -- 14. Truth (1) -- 15. The Nation -- 16. Death -- 17. The Subject (2) -- 18. Morality -- 19. Society -- 20. God -- 21. Truth (2) -- 22. Philosophy -- 23. Decision -- 24. The Same And The Other -- 25. The Family -- 26. Terror -- 27. Purposiveness -- 28. Mathematics -- 29. Nature -- 30. The Idea -- 31. The Absurd -- 32. Repetition -- 33. Origin -- 34. Contradiction -- Notes
Summary: English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the "treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed Philosophe -- Translator's Introduction -- Ahmed the Philosopher -- List of Scenes -- 1. Nothing -- 2. The Event -- 3. Language -- 4. Place -- 5. Cause and Effect -- 6. Politics -- 7. The Multiple -- 8. Chance -- 9. Poetry -- 10. The Subject (1) -- 11. The Big and the Little -- 12. Infinity -- 13. Time -- 14. Truth (1) -- 15. The Nation -- 16. Death -- 17. The Subject (2) -- 18. Morality -- 19. Society -- 20. God -- 21. Truth (2) -- 22. Philosophy -- 23. Decision -- 24. The Same And The Other -- 25. The Family -- 26. Terror -- 27. Purposiveness -- 28. Mathematics -- 29. Nature -- 30. The Idea -- 31. The Absurd -- 32. Repetition -- 33. Origin -- 34. Contradiction -- Notes

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English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the "treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)