What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue...... more

Alain Badiou’s 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out...... more

Alain Badiou’s 1983-1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It...... more

Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American Foundation Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century...... more

the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics...... more

In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the...... more

Alain Badiou’s 1983-1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It...... more

The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou’s entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major...... more

Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou’s seminars, given annually on major...... more

the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics...... more

French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary occurrence. He argues that Trump’s victory was...... more

’All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this...... more

’All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this...... more

In Can Politics Be Thought?--published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time--Alain Badiou...... more

Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou s seminars, given annually on major...... more

, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important...... more

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes...... more

say--as Rimbaud desired it--the reinvention of love. --from the foreword by Alain Badiou...... more

Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan’s short text, thinking "with...... more

In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory...... more

Who hasn’t had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that...... more

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a...... more

Badiou and Barbara Cassin immerse themselves in the philosopher s correspondence with his wife Elfride to answer these...... more

In Heidegger, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin immerse themselves in the philosopher’s correspondence with his wife...... more

time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool...... more

Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the...... more

we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato...... more

Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading...... more

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red...... more

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his...... more

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his...... more

For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In...... more

This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou s thought. Responding to Tarby s questions...... more

This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou s thought. Responding to Tarby s questions...... more

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject...... more

Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou’s most important works...... more

we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato...... more

a variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud s famous line...... more

their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism...... more

. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions...... more

Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical...... more

Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou’s first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the...... more

Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou’s first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the...... more

ideological--some say racist and reactionary--underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner...... more

? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment...... more

Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou’s most important works...... more

Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou’s much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the...... more

From the preface by Alain Badiou: It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the...... more

Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the...... more

The Concept of Model is the first of Alain Badiou s early books to be translated fully into English. With this...... more

Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philo... more