The True Life: A Plea for Corrupting the Young by Alain Badiou (English) Paperba

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'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world.

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'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. Yet powerful forces are pushing them in dangerous directions, into the vortex of consumerism or into reactive forms of traditionalism. This is a time when young people must be particularly attentive to the signs of the new and have the courage to venture forth and find out what they're capable of, without being constrained by the old prejudices and hierarchical ideas of the past. And if the aim of philosophy is to corrupt youth, as Socrates was accused of doing, this can mean only one thing: to help young people see that they don't have to go down the paths already mapped out for them, that they are not just condemned to obey social customs, that they can create something new and propose a different direction as regards the true life.

Notes

This renowned French thinker presents why the pursuit of philosophy offers the best path for the youth of today.

Author Biography

Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher and an Emeritus Professor at the École normale supérieure, Paris.

Table of Contents

Note1. To be young, today: Sense and nonsense2. About the contemporary fate of boys3. About the contemporary fate of girls

Review

"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and university back on the agenda."—Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University, UK "Alain Badiou's plea in this stimulating little book contains the 'serious coquetry' one expects from a philosopher committed to the corruption of youth: young people, whether young in body or mind, reorganize your youth, and in so doing reanimate thinking in radically new directions!"—Jason Barker, Kyung Hee University

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"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and university back on the agenda."—Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University, UK "Alain Badiou's plea in this stimulating little book contains the 'serious coquetry' one expects from a philosopher committed to the corruption of youth: young people, whether young in body or mind, reorganize your youth, and in so doing reanimate thinking in radically new directions!"—Jason Barker, Kyung Hee University

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"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and university back on the agenda." -- Terry Eagleton , Lancaster University, UK "Alain Badiou's plea in this stimulating little book contains the 'serious coquetry' one expects from a philosopher committed to the corruption of youth: young people, whether young in body or mind, reorganize your youth, and in so doing reanimate thinking in radically new directions!" -- Jason Barker , Kyung Hee University

Details ISBN1509514899 Pages 80 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1509514899 ISBN-13 9781509514892 Format Paperback Subtitle A Plea for Corrupting the Young Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 305.235 Media Book Translator Susan Spitzer Author Susan Spitzer Short Title The True Life Language English UK Release Date 2017-03-17 AU Release Date 2017-03-17 NZ Release Date 2017-03-17 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Publication Date 2017-03-17 Imprint Polity Press Alternative 9781509514885 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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