[D-G] NEW TITLE: The Communist Hypothesis

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NEW TITLE:

THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS

By ALAIN BADIOU


Published 2nd August 2010



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COMPETITION: WIN ALL OF VERSO'S BADIOU BOOKS



SEE: http://versouk.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/alain-badious-communist-hypothesis-competition/ FOR MORE DETAILS.

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PRAISE FOR ALAIN BADIOU:


"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" Slavoj Zizek

"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser" NEW STATESMAN http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/sarkozy-france-badiou-french

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"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural" character of the most monstrous inequalities." - Alain Badiou


Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanising call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of our planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.

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ALAIN BADIOU teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including THEORY OF THE SUBJECT, BEING AND EVENT, MANIFESTO FOR PHILOSOPHY, and GILLES DELEUZE. His four recent books THE MEANING OF SARKOZY, ETHICS, METAPOLITICS and POLEMICS are available from Verso.

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ISBN: 978 1 84467 600 2 / $19.95 / £12.99 / CAN$25 / 288 pages

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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:

THE MEANING OF SARKOZY
Alain Badiou

A trenchant and witty dissection of the French political scene by the leading radical philosopher, which includes the first statement of Badiou's 'communist hypothesis'.

PRAISE FOR THE MEANING OF SARKOZY:

"An enjoyably bilious essay" THE GUARDIAN http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/06/alain-badiou-meaning-of-sarkozy

"As the recession worsens and social unrest increases apace, there is every likelihood that the 'communist hypothesis' will re-emerge to capture the political imagination." Michael Cronin, IRISH TIMES http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0225/1224241762583.html

"Compared to Guy Debord's prophetic 1967 masterpiece, THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE... a thundering, rallying tirade." Lucy Wadham, NEW STATESMAN
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/sarkozy-france-badiou-french


"Strangely compelling." THE OBSERVER

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/01/nicolas-sarkozy-politics


"Badiou's concluding, rousing call for an emboldened left to rediscover and reassert 'the communist hypothesis' through new kinds of thought and collective action can't be dismissed as the pipe dreams of an old militant any more." Mark Fisher, FRIEZE
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_meaning_of_sarkozy/


ISBN: 978 1 84467 629 3/ US$16.95 / £8.99 / CAN$21/ 128 pages

For more information visit:
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To buy the book in the UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844676293/The-Meaning-of-Sarkozy

or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Sarkozy-Alain-Badiou/dp/1844676293/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281457669&sr=1-2
To buy the book in the US:
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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK:

THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM
Slavoj Zizek
Edited by Costas Douzinas

November 2010

ISBN: 978 1 84467 459 6 / $26.95 / £14.99 / $33.50/ 240 pages

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