Ahmed the Philosopher Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children & Everyone Else

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.

ISBN:	9780231166928
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Published date:	29 Apr 2014
DEWEY:	842.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	ix, 210
Weight:	458g
Height:	229mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	18mm

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