Short description
Examines the assumptions behind the "ethical turn" in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. The author demonstrates how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of "difference" cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil.
Long description
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the "ethical turn" in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of "difference" cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil.
Review
Against the predominant fashion for anti- and post- philosophies, Ethics enacts a return to full-blown philosophy which strikes as a thunder into the morass of post-modernist sophisms and platitudes. ... A book that aims at he very heart of politically correct 'radical' intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life! - Slavoj Zizek