Alain Badiou’s translation of Plato leaves us with a rare sense that politics can once again be associated with truth, courage and justice, and that we have an agency at our disposal that comes in the passionate work of bringing the idea of equality into existence.
In perhaps the most overlooked mythical invention of all time, Plato, in deep mourning for his buddy and tragic philosopher Socrates went ahead and created the best form of political control imaginable: hell. What Socrates's death represented was the failure of the polis to operate with the philosopher; i.e. with models of deliberation and free …
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