Alain Badiou: 112 books
Philosophy and the Idea of Communism
Alain Badiou in conversation with Peter Engelmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
In a well-known text called ‘The Communist Hypothesis’, first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to...
Le Séminaire - Malebranche
L'Être 2 - Figure théologique (1986)
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2013
La publication des seize volumes du Séminaire d’Alain Badiou constitue un événement. Non seulement parce que, depuis 1966, la renommée du Séminaire n’est plus à démontrer, mais aussi parce qu’il est le laboratoire de la pensée du philosophe ; c’est dans ce cadre qu’Alain Badiou teste...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly).
In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire...
Badiou and His Interlocutors
Lectures, Interviews and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation...
by Alain Badiou, Christian Jambet, Jean-Claude Milner
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1987
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1987
Le lundi 1er février 1988, au Grand Foyer du Théâtre National de Chaillot, fut organisée une soirée philosophique publique. L’occasion de cette soirée était la récente sortie en librairie du livre d’Alain Badiou « L’être et l’événement » (1). Les intervenants étaient, dans l’ordre...
Le Séminaire - Lacan
L'antiphilosophie 3 (1994-1995)
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2013
La publication des seize volumes du Séminaire d’Alain Badiou constitue un événement. Non seulement parce que, depuis 1966, la renommée du Séminaire n’est plus à démontrer, mais aussi parce qu’il est le laboratoire de la pensée du philosophe ; c’est dans ce cadre qu’Alain Badiou teste...
La verdadera vida
Un mensaje a los jóvenes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Un ensayo contundente por y para la juventud de la mano de uno de los más grandes filósofos contemporáneos.
¿Qué significa ser joven hoy? ¿En qué se diferencian los jóvenes de hoy de los de ayer? ¿A qué influencias están sujetos? ¿De qué manera los afecta la tecnología? ¿Qué...
Il sesso, l’amore
Con testi di Giovanni Bottiroli, Federico Leoni, Silvia Lippi, Franco Lolli, Massimo Recalcati, Enrico Redaelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Non esiste rapporto sessuale, ha sentenziato Lacan. Il maschile e il femminile sono destinati a non incontrarsi mai. Esiste però l’amore, gli risponde Alain Badiou. Alain Badiou avrebbe dovuto tenere una lezione magistrale a Milano, invitato dall’Istituto di ricerca di psicoanalisi applicata...
Lacan
Anti-Philosophy 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou’s seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and public illuminations of his complex ideas yet...
Malebranche
Theological Figure, Being 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Alain Badiou is perhaps the world’s most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour...
Klartext
Eine Kontroverse
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Alain Badiou und Alain Finkielkraut setzen sich in einem leidenschaftlichen Streitgespräch mit so sensiblen und strittigen Themen wie nationale Identität, Judentum und dem Staat Israel, Mai 68 und der Rückkehr der Idee des Kommunismus auseinander. Die beiden "Kontrahenten“ vertreten zwei unversöhnliche...
Controversies
Politics and Philosophy in our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red Years" at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Over the years,...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals...
Elogio dell'amore
intervista di Nicolas Truong
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 22, 2015
«Si può amare senza innamorarsi!», «È possibile essere innamorati senza soffrire!». I manifesti pubblicitari del sito di incontri Meetic, che qualche tempo fa tappezzavano Parigi, costituiscono il punto di partenza di queste pagine in cui Alain Badiou, uno dei maggiori filosofi francesi contemporanei,...