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Our Wound is Not So Recent

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Our Wound is Not So Recent

By Alain Badiou

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About the book

On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today? In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of Islamic terrorism, in fact they attest to a much deeper malaise that is connected to the triumph of global capit...Show more

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ISBN

9781509514939

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Our Wound is Not So Recent

Format

Hardcover

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