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

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface to the English Translation of Ahmed Philosophe --   |t Translator's Introduction --   |t Ahmed the Philosopher --   |t List of Scenes --   |t 1. Nothing --   |t 2. The Event --   |t 3. Language --   |t 4. Place --   |t 5. Cause and Effect --   |t 6. Politics --   |t 7. The Multiple --   |t 8. Chance --   |t 9. Poetry --   |t 10. The Subject (1) --   |t 11. The Big and the Little --   |t 12. Infinity --   |t 13. Time --   |t 14. Truth (1) --   |t 15. The Nation --   |t 16. Death --   |t 17. The Subject (2) --   |t 18. Morality --   |t 19. Society --   |t 20. God --   |t 21. Truth (2) --   |t 22. Philosophy --   |t 23. Decision --   |t 24. The Same And The Other --   |t 25. The Family --   |t 26. Terror --   |t 27. Purposiveness --   |t 28. Mathematics --   |t 29. Nature --   |t 30. The Idea --   |t 31. The Absurd --   |t 32. Repetition --   |t 33. Origin --   |t 34. Contradiction --   |t Notes 
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