Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths

A J Bartlett

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August, 2011
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4375-2
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

This is an interrogation of Plato’s entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou.

This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou’s claim that his work is a "Platonism of the multiple" and that philosophy today requires a "platonic gesture". Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato’s philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: "what is education?"

Related Subjects

• Philosophy

About the Author

A. J. Bartlett is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.

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