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Images of the Present Time

By (author) Alain Badiou, Translated by Susan Spitzer, Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

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Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American Foundation Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of â€œthe present.â€ In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with oneâ€™s own timeâ€”that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence. Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiouâ€™s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future. Featuring some of the philosopherâ€™s most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiouâ€™s thought.

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