Ahmed the philosopher thirty-four short plays for children & everyone else / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Badiou, Alain.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Ahmed philosophe.
- 出版： New York : Columbia University Press
- 主題： Badiou, Alain.
- ISBN： 9780231536585 (electronic bk.)
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FIND@SFXID:
CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005365534 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the "treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.