In February 2004, the constitutionally elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by a US-France invasion with the blessing of the UN Security Council. This coup, under the guise of "humanitarian intervention," sent an unambiguous message to hemispheric opponents such as Fidel Castr[...]
Formerly the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long been one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world-a fact made clear by the disastrous effects of the earthquake in January 2010, which triggered another US military operation. Damming the Flood analyzes t[...]
An analysis of the central beliefs of the twentieth-century French philosopher considers his influence over his contemporaries while arguing that Deleuze was an "other-worldly" thinker whose assertion of an unlimited creative power was compromised by his dismissal of problems related to conflict and[...]
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the prim[...]
I de texter som här för första gången presenteras i svensk språkdräkt skildrar Peter Hallward den historiska bakgrunden till Haitis utveckling sedan Duvalierregimens fall och ger en kritisk analys av den händelseutveckling som kulminerade i att landets valde president i februari 2004 drevs bo[...]
Slavoj a Zazek is not alone in thinking that Alain Badious recent work is the event of contemporary philosophy. Think Again, the first publication of its kind, goes a long way towards justifying his assessment. Badiou is nothing if not polemical and the most suitable way to approach his philosophy i[...]