“He argues that the bedrock of present-day ethics—the normative conception of human rights—is morally bankrupt. “It amounts to a genuine nihilism, a threatening denial of thought as such,” he writes. As Badiou sees it, current ethics has been enlisted in the army of capitalist-liberalism: “The theme of ethics and of human rights is compatible with the self-satisfied egoism of the affluent West, with advertising, and with service rendered to the powers that be.” In support of his startling claim, he sketches a history of ethical theory and argues that today’s ethics—the traffic not only of philosophers, but of politicians and professionals—is rooted in Kantian origins and a facile understanding of evil.”

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