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BADIOU, BALIBAR, RANCIERE Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Series Editor: James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Continuum. The series features first-class scholarly research monographs across the field of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major contribution to the field of philosophical research. 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Gregg Lambert Zizek and Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman Zizek 's Dialectics, Fabio Vighi BADIOU, BALIBAR, RANGIERE Re-thinking Emancipation Nick Hewlett Contiuum Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com ©Nick Hewlett 2007, 2010 First published 2007 Paperback edition 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: PB: 978-1-4411-0967-5 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Aarontype Limited, Easton, Bristol In memory of (Enone Hewlett, 1920-2006 This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Note on Translations X Abbreviations xi 1 Contexts and Parameters 1 Three characteristics of modern French thought 10 The legacy of Louis Althusser 17 Concluding remarks 22 2 Alain Badiou: Event, Subject and Truth 24 The role of philosophy 28 Truth 33 The event, movement and change 37 Concluding remarks 45 3 The Paradoxes of Alain Badiou's Theory of Politics 47 Politics, the event and truth procedures 49 Against and beyond the postmodern 59 Marxism and historical materialism 62 Democracy 69 Parliamentary politics 72 Badiou's political activism 75 Concluding remarks 81 4 Jacques Ranciere: Politics is Equality is Democracy 84 Listening to the unheard 86 Liberal democracy and language 95 Defining the political 100 Democracy and post-democracy 108 Concluding remarks 111 viii Contents 5 Etienne Balibar: Emancipation, Equaliberty and the 116 Dilemmas of Modernity The political 119 Ambivalence, universality, ideology 127 Political violence 129 Lenin and Gandhi 136 Concluding remarks 139 6 With and Beyond Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere 142 References and Bibliography 155 Index 173 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Gary Browning, Christopher Flood and two anonymous readers for commenting on drafts of individual chapters of this book. Thanks also to participants at conferences and seminars at the Universities of Fukuoka, Budapest and Leeds, at King's Col- lege, London, and at University College, London, who commented on some of the ideas in this book. In particular, I would like to thank Gregory Elliott for a detailed, sensitive and highly insightful reading of the manuscript as a whole. Sarah Douglas at Continuum showed immediate enthusiasm for the project when I first approached her, and was very helpful and encouraging thereafter. Nick Fawcett did an excellent job copy-editing the manuscript. The final shape of the book, including any errors and infelicities, is of course my responsibil- ity alone. My appreciation goes to the Arts and Humanities Research Coun- cil for funding a period of leave in order to bring the project to fruition and to the British Academy for two travel grants. An earlier version of Chapter 2 was published in 2004 in Modern and Contemporary France 12 (3) and an earlier version of Chapter 3 was published in 2006 in Contemporary Political Theory 5 (4). I would like to thank Bridget Taylor, who has not only given con- sistently sound advice during the time I was writing this book, but has also shown huge patience as I went through authorial highs and lows. My children Emily and Gus have been moving towards adulthood over the past few years and remain constant sources of happiness. Lasting happiness and enduring love are qualities I associate strongly with my mother, (Enone, to whose memory this book is dedicated.
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