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Migrants and Militants
Alain Badiou
Translated by Joseph Litvak
polity
Originally published in French as Méfiez-vous des blancs, habitants du rivage © Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2019 This English edition © Polity Press, 2020
‘A Massively Single Number’ by Guo Jinniu from Yang Lian (ed.), A Massively Single Number (Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2015), translated by Brian Holton. Original poem copyright © Guo Jinniu, 2015; translation copyright © Brian Holton, 2015. Reproduced here by kind permission of Shearsman Books.
Excerpt from Of Hospitality by Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle. Translated by Rachel Bowlby. Copyright © by Calmann-Lévy. English translation © 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4247-5
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Names: Badiou, Alain, author. | Litvak, Joseph, translator.
Title: Migrants and militants / Alain Badiou ; translated by Joseph Litvak.
Other titles: Méfiez-vous des Blancs, habitants du rivage. English
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020] | “Originally published in French as Méfiez-vous des blancs, habitants du rivage! ©Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2019.” | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “France’s leading philosopher gives a powerful account of our obligations to migrants”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019047001 (print) | LCCN 2019047002 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509542451 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509542468 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509542475 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration. | Refugees. | Other (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC JV6035 .B3413 2020 (print) | LCC JV6035 (ebook) | DDC 305.9/0691--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047001 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047002