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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

by Alain Badiou · 1994

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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."

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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moralitymoralityMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 166 pages
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