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Titre :
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil : L'Ethique : essai sur la conscience du mal
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Auteurs :
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Alain Badiou, Auteur ;
Peter Hallward, Traducteur
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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London : Verso Books, 2002
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-1-85984-435-9
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Format :
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166 p.
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Langues originales:
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Français
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Index. décimale :
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194 (Philosophie française moderne)
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Mots-clés:
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Badiou, Alain
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philosophie
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Résumé :
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Badiou proposes a positive doctrine that he calls "The Ethic of Truths," ultimately arguing that "there is no ethics in general." Instead, there are only "processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation." The book's main failing is its length. It is simply too short to do justice to the panoply of literature on ethics or to inoculate Badiou against a host of objections that are lurking nearby. Nonetheless, his reasoning is powerful and surprising, marking some of the best writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are impeccable. He teaches at the École normale supérieure in Paris and is author of a half dozen well-regarded books on a range of philosophical topics.
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