Alain: 2045 books

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins...

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser....

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...

Working on his model railroad set is more than just a hobby for John Wilson, it's his desperate attempt to fix the ghosts of his childhood. But his obsession with his creation may have an unexpected side-effect...Short Story, approx. 2,500 words

Meurtre à la ligne - Une enquête du Capitaine Frank Meyer Le corps d'un homme est découvert dans le fleuve La Têt, accroché au bout d'une ligne, le fil de pêche autour du cou. Face à cette mise en scène, le capitaine Frank Meyer et son équipe de la Police Judiciaire de Perpignan se retrouvent...

Le corps d'un homme est retrouvé dans un parc, pendu à un arbre. Le meurtre est bientôt associé à celui d'une autre victime découverte un mois plus tôt. Mais les enquêteurs ne sont pas au bout de leur surprise, lorsqu'ils font le lien avec un troisième crime plus ancien. La piste du tueur...

Alors qu'elle rentre chez elle après une journée de travail, Louise à l'horrible surprise de trouver sa colocataire assassinée. C'est le prélude à une série de meurtres se différenciant les uns des autres par un chiffre gravé sur les lieux...

From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems. Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers...

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is precisely the issue at stake...

Pierre, un adolescent rêveur d’une quinzaine d’années, n’aurait jamais pensé se retrouver dans un pays imaginaire, celui-là même qu’il avait inventé. Alors que sa mère Marie, gravement malade, est emmenée à l’hôpital, un curieux vieillard demande son aide. « Tu es le sauveur de...

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation...

What is paganism? In this penetrating and tightly argued manifesto, French philosopher Alain de Benoist seeks to answer this question with passionate intellectual vigor and a tremendous erudition. Arising out of the “monotheism vs. polytheism” debate that reverberated through Parisian intellectual...

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