Alain Badiou: Our Evil Comes from Afar (Thoughts on the November 2015 Paris Attacks) [Notre mal vient de plus loin]

Abstract

The book "Notre mal vient de plus loin" is a book written in a stormy context of rapid events, ones characterized by terrorism and the growth of violent jihadi movements on the one hand, the events of the Arab Spring that shook the Arab East and West on the other, and the extension of Western racist movements of the far right in Germany and France and other Western nations as a natural or unnatural response to events. In this context, Alain Badiou has written this distinctive book to make clear that the events that occurred in Paris on Friday November 13, 2015 were not the product of Islam, as suggested by those who claim this pre-packaged thesis and the broken daily record of the Western media, but the product of the fragmented Western context replete with vile marginalization, blithe indifference, and cunning inequality towards sections of the French people who live off the crumbs of charity or who are completely destitute.