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The Man Without Qualities and One Hundred Years of Solitude

realize his democratic potential

and relations that this power generates along the way

particularly in the early years of the conflict—in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

This work ranges across five areas of debate that have remained largely unconnected until now: epistemology

Metapolitics keyword-housework The Man Without Qualities andBadiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible political truth be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion, and that political