Can Violence Be Thought? Notes on Badiou and the Possibility of (Marxist) Politics Cover Image

Може ли да се мисли насилството? Размисли за Бадју и за можоста за (марксистичка) политика
Can Violence Be Thought? Notes on Badiou and the Possibility of (Marxist) Politics

Author(s): Alberto Toscano
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Marxism
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: violence; Alain Badiou; Marxism;

Summary/Abstract: What is the relationship between the thinking of violence and the thinking of politics in the writings of Alain Badiou? The very text where Badiou proposes – at the putative close of his own Maoist or Marxist-Leninist sequence of political militancy – the “destruction” and “recomposition” of Marxist politics, is entitled Can Politics Be Thought?1

  • Issue Year: 5/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-38
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English, Macedonian