True Life Badiou Alain
True Life Badiou Alain 'I'm 79 years old. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is…
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True Life Badiou Alain
'I'm 79 years old. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young.Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world.
This is a time when young people must be particularly attentive to the signs of the new and have the courage to venture forth and find out what they're capable of, without being constrained by the old prejudices and hierarchical ideas of the past. Yet powerful forces are pushing them in dangerous directions, into the vortex of consumerism or into reactive forms of traditionalism. And if the aim of philosophy is to corrupt youth, as Socrates was accused of doing, this can mean only one thing: to help young people see that they