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==Book Description==
Twenty years ago, [[Alain]] Badiou’s first ''Manifesto for [[Philosophy]]'' rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the “end” of philosophy. In lieu of this problematic of the end, he put forward the watchword: “one more step”.
The [[situation]] has considerably changed since then. Philosophy was threatened with obliteration at the [[time]], whereas today it finds itself under [[threat]] for the diametrically opposed [[reason]]: it is endowed with an excessive, artificial [[existence]]. “Philosophy” is everywhere. It serves as a trademark for various [[media]] pundits. It livens up cafés and health clubs. It has its magazines and its gurus. It is universally called upon, by everything from banks to major [[state]] commissions, to pronounce on [[ethics]], law and [[duty]]. In [[essence]], “philosophy” has now come to stand for [[nothing]] [[other]] than its most ancient [[enemy]]: [[conservative]] ethics.
Badiou’s second manifesto therefore seeks to demoralize philosophy and to [[separate]] it from all those “philosophies” that are as servile as they are ubiquitous. It demonstrates the [[power]] of certain eternal truths to illuminate [[action]] and, as such, to transport philosophy far beyond the [[figure]] of “the human” and its “rights”. There, well beyond all moralism, in the clear expanse of the [[idea]], [[life]] becomes something radically other than survival.
