François Laruelle: Anti-Badiou: On the Introduction of Maoism Into Philosophy (2011/2013)

“This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle.

At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position of absolute immanence; both argue that philosophy is conditioned by science; and both command a pluralism of thought. Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou’s Maoist ‘ontology of the void’ and Laruelle’s own performative practice of ‘non-philosophy’ and explains why the two are in fact radically different. Badiou’s entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics. Laruelle carefully examines Badiou’s Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe. In turn, Laruelle explains the contrast with his own non-philosophy as a true democracy of thought that breaks philosophy’s continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of ‘non-standard’ places where thinking can be found and practised.”

Originally published as Anti-Badiou: sur l’introduction du maoïsme dans la philosophie by Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2011

Translated by Robin Mackay
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic, London/New York, 2013
ISBN 1441190767, 9781441190765
246 pages

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Abdel Rahman Badawi: Autobiography (2000) [Arabic]

يتحدث الكتاب في عن سيرة حياة أحد أهم المفكرين البارزين في مصر والذي كانت له إسهامات كبيرة في مجال التأليف، حيث كان لأكثرها الطابع الديني الإسلامي. يسوق المؤلف، وهو صاحب السيرة، سيرة حياته بكل مجرياتها والتي تزامنت مع أحداث مهمة على كل الأصعدة، السياسية، الاجتماعية، الثقافية، الدينية في مصر، وكان لهذه المجريات تأثير على مسيرته الفكرية. إنها سيرة تعكس نضال أهل الفكر، بصورة عامة والبدوي بصورة خاصة، في هذه الحياة في سبيل دفاعهم عن مبادئهم من ناحية، ونضالهم في سبيل إتمام رسالتهم التي خصهم الله بها من ناحية أخرى مكرسين حياتهم لإبداعهم، ولعطاءاتهم الثرّة التي تمثل في كلياتها كنزاً فكرياً عربياً، معينه لا ينضب

عبد الرحمن بدوي: سيرة حياتي
Publisher Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 2000
765 pages

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Andrew Hsiao, Audrea Lim (eds.): The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad (2010)

A sparkling anthology of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression.

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles.

This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.

Preface by Tariq Ali
Publisher Verso Books, 2010
ISBN 1844674487, 9781844674480
366 pages

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