Ahmed the Philosopher : : Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else / / Alain Badiou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Badiou, Alain,
• TeilnehmendeR: Litvak, Joseph.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed Philosophe --; Translator's Introduction --; Ahmed the Philosopher --; List of Scenes --; 1. Nothing --; 2. The Event --; 3. Language --; 4. Place --; 5. Cause and Effect --; 6. Politics --; 7. The Multiple --; 8. Chance --; 9. Poetry --; 10. The Subject (1) --; 11. The Big and the Little --; 12. Infinity --; 13. Time --; 14. Truth (1) --; 15. The Nation --; 16. Death --; 17. The Subject (2) --; 18. Morality --; 19. Society --; 20. God --; 21. Truth (2) --; 22. Philosophy --; 23. Decision --; 24. The Same And The Other --; 25. The Family --; 26. Terror --; 27. Purposiveness --; 28. Mathematics --; 29. Nature --; 30. The Idea --; 31. The Absurd --; 32. Repetition --; 33. Origin --; 34. Contradiction --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231536585; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/badi16692
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alain Badiou.

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.