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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light annotations marking and wear due to use. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> According to Richard Dawkins’s well-known formulation “God’s utility fune-tion” in living nature is the reproduction of genes that is genes (DNA) are not a means for the reproduction of living beings but the other way round living beings are the means for the self-reproduction of genes Ideology should be viewed in the same way and we should ask the following questione What is the “utility function of an ideological state apparatus (ISA)? The materialist answer is this: The utility function of an ISA is neither the repro-duction of ideology qua network of ideas emotions and so on nor the re-production of social circumstances legitimired by this ideology but the self-reproduction of the ISA itself. The same ideology can accommodate itself to different social modes it can change the content of its ideas and so on just to “survive” as an ISA. However from time to time something emerges that cannot be reduced to this placid logic of survival and reproduction: an event an engagement for a universal cause that inexorably follows its inherent ne cessity disregarding all opportunistic considerations. So what does Alain Badiou aim at with his central notion that philoso phy depends on some truth event as its external condition? (SP)