{"product_id":"ethics-an-essay-on-the-understanding-of-evil-9781781680186","title":"Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil","description":"Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolemics, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Lessons on Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hallward\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eAbsolutely Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBadiou: A Subject to Truth, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOut of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDamming the Flood.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967155175698,"sku":"9781781680186","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4bb870e-ae34-48ae-a8e0-9d2f0cf6e17a.jpg?v=1768927784","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ethics-an-essay-on-the-understanding-of-evil-9781781680186","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}