It has seemed to me for some time now that Zizek has been drawing his political inspiration and some of his main themes from Badiou (and I’d be anxious to hear others’ thoughts on this). But in Zizek these themes acquire a different spin and go in quite another direction than that which they have [...]
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Badiou — and George Bernard Shaw — on Richard Wagner
Another book by Badiou just out in Engish, this one on a surprising topic. Richard Wagner is not someone about whom I have much knowledge, either artistically or politically, aside from the usual background that he’s often been classed as a racist and reactionary. This is a verdict against which Badiou argues in Five Lessons [...]
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