{"product_id":"the-idea-of-communism-paperback","title":"The Idea of Communism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCostas Douzinas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo not be afraid, join us, come back  You've had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it--time to get serious once again \u003c\/i\u003e--Slavoj Žižek \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eResponding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persistent notion that, in a truly emancipated society, all things should be owned in common. This volume brings together their discussions on the philosophical and political import of the communist idea, highlighting both its continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a world marked by havoc and crisis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCostas Douzinas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. He is the author of numerous works, including \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLaw and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the École 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 \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolemics, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Lessons on Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruno Bosteels\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBadiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Actuality of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently serves as the General Editor of \u003ci\u003eDiacritics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Buck-Morss\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hallward\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eAbsolutely Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBadiou: A Subject to Truth, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOut of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDamming the Flood.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonio Negri\u003c\/b\u003e has taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he has also been a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003ePolitical Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime for Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, \u003ci\u003eLabor of Dionysus, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Paris and Venice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Rancière\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Shores of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShort Voyages to the Land of the People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nights of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStaging the People\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipated Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Toscano\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Theatre of Production\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFanaticism\u003c\/i\u003e, translator of Alain Badiou's \u003ci\u003eThe Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLogics of Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of Alain Badiou's \u003ci\u003eTheoretical Writings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Beckett\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy, politics and social theory, and is an editor of \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.32 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702066606387,"sku":"9781844674596","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xzijhD5I_N9781844674596.webp?v=1763290518","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-idea-of-communism-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}