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Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole normale supérieure and the Collège 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 recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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Title Five Lessons on Wagner
Author Alain Badiou; Susan Spitzer (Translator); Afterword by Slavoj Zizek
Binding Hardcover
Pages 239
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Verso
Date 2010-12-13
ISBN 9781844674565 / 1844674568
Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
Dimensions 8.7 x 5.82 x 0.9 in (22.10 x 14.78 x 2.29 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Wagner, Richard - Criticism and, Music and philosophy
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010564852

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“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek (in praise of Alain Badiou)

“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—New Statesman (in praise of Alain Badiou)

“Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”—Times Higher Education Supplement (in praise of Alain Badiou)

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Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole 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 recent books include "The Meaning of Sarkozy," "Ethics," "Metapolitics," "Polemics, ""The Communist Hypothesis," "Five Lessons on Wagner," and "Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy."
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include "Living in the End Times," "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce," "In Defense of Lost Causes," four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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Translation by Susan Spitzer of "Cinq leçons sur le 'cas' Wagner" (Éditions Nous, 2010), with afterword by Slavoj Zizek. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is new, still in shrinkwrap. 224 pages."For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological—some say racist and reactionary—underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composer's work, which include Adorno's writings on the composer and Wagner's recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent readings by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and others. Slavoj Zizek provides an afterword, and both philosophers make a passionate case for re-examining the relevance of Wagner to the contemporary world."