The rebirth of history: times of riots and uprisings

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Sinopse

Testing the winds of history blowing from the Arab revolts.In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers—regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after what was commonly thought to be the end of a revolutionary epoch: in 1815, the final defeat of Napoleon; and in 1989, the fall of the Soviet Union. But the revolutions of 1848 proclaimed for a century and a half the return of revolutionary thought and action. Likewise, the uprisings underway today herald a worldwide resurgence in the liberating force of the masses—despite the attempts of the ‘international community’ to neutralize its power.Badiou’s book salutes this reawakening of history, weaving examples from the Arab Spring and elsewhere into a global analysis of the return of emancipatory universalism.

Participantes

Autor: Alain Badiou

Tradutor: Gregory Elliott

Autor

ALAIN BADIOU

Alain Badiou , filósofo, dramaturgo e romancista, leciona filosofia na Universidade de Paris-VII Vincennes e no Collège International de Philosophie. Publicou, entre outros, os ensaios Le nombre et les nombres (Seuil, 1990), Conditions (Seuil, 1992), Abrégé de métapolitique (Seuil, 1998), o romance Calme Bloc ici-bas (P.O.L, 1997) e a comédia Les Citrouilles (Actes Sud, 1996).

No Brasil, foram editados Manifesto pela filosofia (Aoutra, 1991), Para uma nova teoria do sujeito (Relume-Dumará, 1994), Ética: um ensaio sobre a consciência do mal (Relume-Dumará, 1995), O ser e o evento (Jorge Zahar, 1996) e Deleuze: o clamor do ser (Jorge Zahar, 1997).