A review by paulataua
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou

5.0

Certainly not an easy read. Badiou takes apart modern ethics based on concepts of human rights, argues against the ethics of alterity found in Levinas. and then goes on to argue for an ethics based on the subject, the event, and fidelity. I started by thinking it was all loose and inadequately argued, but after a second read and a lot of deliberation, I began to see a solid and interesting argument. I still have questions about his ‘universalization’ and where it comes from, and what being 'human' is, but this short book gave me an immense amount of food for thought that will keep me going for quite some time. Asking for no more.