Edinburgh University Press Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths

Product Description 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?' Key features o Corrects many errors in the existing commentary on Badiou's work o Extracts a key Platonic theme crucial at every level of culture today: education Review This is not a work of commentary but an intervention: by actualizing the categories of Badiou's Being and Event, Bartlett subverts the Aristotelian biases of Plato scholarship and exposes the sophistical basis of contemporary ideologies of education. The result brilliantly exemplifies the transformative import of Badiou's Platonism. --Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut From the Inside Flap AUTHOR APPROVED This is not a work of commentary but an intervention: by actualizing the categories of Badiou's Being and Event, Bartlett subverts the Aristotelian biases of Plato scholarship and exposes the sophistical basis of contemporary ideologies of education. The result brilliantly exemplifies the transformative import of Badiou's Platonism. Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut Using the concepts of Alain Badiou, this work interrogates Plato's concept of education. Alain Badiou makes the claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'. Drawing upon the concepts and categories developed by Badiou that support this claim, A. J. Bartlett presents a new reading of the Platonic corpus showing that the question of education is at the heart of philosophy itself. A. J. Bartlett is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is co-editor of Badiou: Key Concepts and The Praxis of Alain Badiou. From the Back Cover AUTHOR APPROVED This is not a work of commentary but an intervention: by actualizing the categories of Badiou's Being and Event, Bartlett subverts the Aristotelian biases of Plato scholarship and exposes the sophistical basis of contemporary ideologies of education. The result brilliantly exemplifies the transformative import of Badiou's Platonism. Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut Using the concepts of Alain Badiou, this work interrogates Plato's concept of education. Alain Badiou makes the claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'. Drawing upon the concepts and categories developed by Badiou that support this claim, A. J. Bartlett presents a new reading of the Platonic corpus showing that the question of education is at the heart of philosophy itself. A. J. Bartlett is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is co-editor of Badiou: Key Concepts and The Praxis of Alain Badiou. About the Author A. J. Bartlett is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely on the work of Badiou. He co-authored The Praxis of Alain Badiou with Paul Ashton and Justin Clemens (re.press, 2006) and more recently Badiou: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2010).