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L’Éclat de l’absolu Book Launch: Jana Ndiaye Berankova, Alain Badiou and Nick Nesbitt

Why is affirmative thinking necessary to overcome the present political crisis? How does a “truth procedure” transform the human subject? The philosopher Alain Badiou, Nick Nesbitt, a leading expert on Louis Althusser and on Caribbean thinkers, and Jana Ndiaye Berankova, currently a Fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, discussed the present social crisis and the importance of the notions of the absolute, the universal, and the truth. They presented "L’Éclat de l’absolu" (The Splendor of the Absolute), a series of interviews that Berankova conducted with Badiou over five years, from 2014 to 2019, in New York, Paris, and Prague, as we celebrate the publication of its first French edition by Suture Press. https://shop.suturepress.com/products... L’Éclat de l’absolu offers perhaps the most comprehensive and systematic collection of interviews realized to date on Badiou’s philosophical “masters”: Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan, and Deleuze. These dialogues are a true anamnesis, supported by a profound knowledge of the work of Badiou and other thinkers and by a constant return to the texts. They offer new and sometimes more accessible points of view on his major works such as Being and Event (1988) and The Immanence of Truths (2018) as well as considerations on the problems of Marxism, on the critique of the party-state, the role of the absolute and the possibilities to overcome the death drive and to reconcile conscious and unconscious spheres of a human psyche. To honor the “classical” aspects of Badiou’s complex system of thought, L’Éclat de l’absolu is published in a hardcover edition with a golden foil-stamp print and includes drawings inspired by baroque engravings and the French Encyclopedia made by Alexey Klyuykov, a Prague-based artist. A true editorial work of art and a book-lovers’ dream, this book opens new paths for the future of philosophy.