Badiou is with doubt the most influential philosopher working in Europe today - this book will provide the first detailed introduction to Being and Event, a hugely important, but challenging book. Alain Badiou's "Being and Event" is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely co...(展开全部)

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

A comprehensive overview of Slavoj i ek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future Identifies the major currents in i ek's thought, discussing all of his works and providi...(展开全部)

This is a Reader's Guide to arguably Deleuze's most demanding work and a key text in modern European thought.Gilles Deleuze is without question one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. "Difference and Repetition" is a classic work of contemporary philosophy and a key text in Deleuze's oeuvre, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity that develops...(展开全部)

This is a Reader's Guide to arguably Deleuze's most demanding work and a key text in modern European thought.Gilles Deleuze is without question one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. "Difference and Repetition" is a classic work of contemporary philosophy and a key text in Deleuze's oeuvre, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity that develops...(展开全部)

This is a Reader's Guide to a key text in contemporary Continental philosophy. "A Thousand Plateaus" is the engaging and influential second part of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", the remarkable collaborative project written by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text is a work of staggering complexity that made a major con...(展开全部)

This is a Reader's Guide to a key text in contemporary Continental philosophy. "A Thousand Plateaus" is the engaging and influential second part of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", the remarkable collaborative project written by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text is a work of staggering complexity that made a major con...(展开全部)