{"product_id":"9780927920124","title":"Dear Alain","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Fiction. Philosophy. Katy Bohinc's DEAR ALAIN is a headlong, investigative imagined conversation between Poet and Philosopher, a long love poem of letters addressed to French Platonist philosopher, Alain Badiou. At once \"a romance novel of a sort,\" a metaphor of the relationship between poetry \u0026amp; philosophy, and a representation of the work of Alain Badiou. Includes a short response by Badiou himself. A place where, \"We meet at infinity.\"\u003cp\u003e\"She's terrific, and I don't even think very often about Alain Badiou—I'm just enjoying her exclamations, and her explanations of how poetry, for her, embodies intuition and provides evidence for embodied experience. It's a very good book and I'm going to quote it at people.\"—Stephen Burt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surely, certainly, amusingly, thoroughly, this book is the perfectly unfaithful book in its loving address to that collapsed beast, philosophy. Between its slick covers, Katy gambols. She defies the parameters of the epistolary mini-drama her letters to Alain Badiou act out: a park, a platonic table, a parallelogram that meets at the horizon. 'How do you not wonder if the canon has made a mistake' she asks. The sheer vitality of her quest shows us that philosophy depends on being dead a little bit.\"—Lisa Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book should be banished!\"—Slavoj Žižek\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tender Buttons Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020134433008,"sku":"9780927920124","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780927920124_p0.jpg?v=1763871155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780927920124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}