Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser's materialism as a starting point-which, as Pfeifer shows, wa…
La autora hace un sigular homenaje a seis filósofos franceses del siglo XX: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze y Derrida. Pero este homenaje es también una reivindicación de la filosofía como práctica crítica y de una filosofía en particular: aquella que ejerció la…
In this work one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy.
In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althu…
