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Polemics, Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cécile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Corcoran

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Polemics

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Alain Badiou ; part two, chapter 8 by Cécile Winter ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Corcoran

Pt. 1., Philosophy and circumstances: Introduction -- Philosophy and the question of war today: 1. On September 11 2001: philosophy and the 'War against terrorism' -- 2. Fragments of a public journal on the American war against Iraq -- 3. On the war against Serbia: who strikes whom in the world today? -- The, 'democratic' fetish and racism: 4. On parliamentary 'democracy': the French presidential elections of 2002 -- 5. The law on the Islamic headscarf -- 6. Daily humiliation -- Openings/Affirmations: 7. The power of the open: A discourse on the necessity of fusing Germany and France -- 8. Third sketch of a manifesto of affirmationist art -- Notes to part one -- Pt. 2. Uses of the word 'Jew': Introduction -- 1. Israel: the country in the world where there are the fewest Jews? -- 2. The destruction of the European Jews and the question of evil (fragments from Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil, translated by Peter Hallward) -- 3. A dialogue between a Jew from Darzia and an Arab from Epirus -- 4. Saint Paul and the Jews (excerpt from Saint Paul: the foundation of universalism, translated by Ray Brassier) -- 5. Against negationism -- 6. Local angel -- 7. Intervew at the Daily Haaretz -- 8. The master-signifier of the New Aryans (by Cécile Winter) -- 9. The word 'Jew' and the sycophant -- Notes to part two -- PT. 3. Historicity of politics : lessons of two revolutions. 1. The Paris commune: a political declaration on politics -- 2. The cultural revolution: the last revolution? -- A, brief chronology of the cultural revolution (translated by Bruno Bosteels) -- Notes to part three