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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

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Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil."

Language: English

Pages: 166

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Verso

Release: November 17, 2001

ISBN: 1859844359

ISBN 13: 9781859844359

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil."

Language: English

Pages: 166

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Verso

Release: November 17, 2001

ISBN: 1859844359

ISBN 13: 9781859844359

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