Metapolitics

In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume "Ethics", Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. "Metapolitics" argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection. Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of production of truth and the affirmation of equality.