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An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concept...

An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concept...

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scat...

Alain Badiou is René Descartes Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School and the author of numerous books, including Being and Event, Theory of the Subject, and Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Bruno Bosteels is Professor in¿the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

English translation of Rhapsodie pour le theatre, Theatre et philosophie, and other writings of Alain Badiou.

Introduced and translated by Bruno Bosteels.

Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Theory of the Subject is one of his most important and influential works.

Seeks to reclaim 'people' as an effective political concept, by engaging the topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally and ontologically.

This leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy. Translated and introduced by Bruno Bosteels.

Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent.

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A philosophical handbook for activists, from the author of "Communist Hypothesis". Provides a philosophical grounding for radical students, the young, workers and immigrants. 'A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!' Slavoj Zizek

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In this collection of essays, Alain Badiou revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the "age of the poets, " from Holderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first pub...

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Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn? in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy? of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels's introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescapable for contemporary philosophy.