'[Badiou's theory] enacts a return to full-blown philosophy that strikes as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes...[Badiou] aims at the very heart of politically correct 'radical' intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!' Slavoj Zizek, Professor[...]

In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume "Ethics", a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. "Metapolitics" argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical [...]