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The Last Days of the Dialectic with Robert Boncardo and Bryan Cooke
Emancipations Podcast
English - October 30, 2021 14:46 - 2 hours - 116 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture News Politics marx philosophy politics psychoanalysis Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We are joined by philosophers Robert Boncardo and Bryan Cooke to discuss the philosophical and political thought of Alain Badiou. Boncardo and Cooke's research is shedding light on how Badiou's concrete political militancy from 1969 - 1981 shaped his first major work Theory of the Subject (1982).
We discuss the communist group Badiou was part of from 1969 - 1981 UCFML, the SONACOTRA Rent Strike, Badiou's relation to Maoism and how these more practical activities serve as a crucial backdrop for understanding the otherwise enigmatic concepts Badiou develops in Theory of the Subject.
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