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Book SynopsisIn Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage.
Trade Review"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"
Slavoj iek
"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda."
Terry Eagleton
"One of the most important philosophers writing today."
Joan Copjec
"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."
New Statesman
Table of ContentsContents
Alain Badiou and the untimely stage: translator�
introduction by Andrew Bielski
1. Defense of an endangered art
2. Theatre and philosophy, story of an old couple
3. Between dance and cinema
4. Political stages
5. The place of the spectator
Translator�s notes
Index
