{"product_id":"black-the-brilliance-of-a-non-color-paperback-softback-9781509512089","title":"Black; The Brilliance of a Non-Color (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509512089","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Brilliance of a Non-Color\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlain Badiou (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509512089, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e18.5 x 12.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.113 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Badiou’s Black is a singular and remarkable book. This is not the Badiou of ontology, set theory and the theorization of subjectivity, nor the Badiou of incisive political intervention or philosophical-historical summation. Working through a series of ficto-critical vignettes, Black is composed of subtle and diverse meditations on black as a darkness that obscures at the same time as it discloses. Black at once hearkens back to a style of personal philosophy that seemed lost with Blanchot, while also looking forward to a new mode of singular meditation that is perhaps necessary for twenty-first-century thought.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Claire Colebrook, Penn State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Alain Badiou's \u003ci\u003eBlack: The Brilliance of a Noncolor\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical departure for the impenetrable thinker of Theory of the Subject and Being and Event. It's more in the tradition of Maurice Blanchot (or even Alexander Theroux, Mark Rothko) than Lacan or Althusser and casts an evocative pall over the way text, thought, and flesh have come to negotiate dark and light (black\/white).\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinor Literatures\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called \"The Stroke of Midnight.\"  The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned magazines, the beauty of black ink on paper, but also the mysteries of space and the grief of mourning: these are some of the things we encounter as the philosopher takes us on a trip through the private theater of his mind, at the whim of his memories. Music, painting, politics, sex, and metaphysics: all contribute to making black more luminous than it has ever been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator's note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChildhood and youth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilitary black\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stroke of Midnight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe black dog in the dark\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inkwell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChalk and markers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dialectics of black\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDialectical ambiguities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack souls\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoulages' ultrablack\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlags\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRed and black. And white. And violet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStendhal: the red and the black\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dark desire of\/for darkness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClothing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe black sign\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack humor, or black vs. black\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutward appearance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysics, biology, and anthropology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe metaphorical black of the Cosmos\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe secret blackness of plants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnimal black\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn invention of white people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460640403736,"sku":"9781509512089","price":11.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509512089.jpg?v=1785456535","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-the-brilliance-of-a-non-color-paperback-softback-9781509512089","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}