Alain Badiou: 112 books

In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from Set Theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements...

The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever...

De tous les textes de Lacan, L’Etourdit, publié en 1973 dans la revue Scilicet et réédité en 2001 au Seuil dans le volume Autres écrits, est généralement tenu pour un des plus obscurs, ce qui n’est pas peu dire quand on connaît la réputation de gongorisme faite de longue date à son auteur....

Die westliche Welt ist verunsichert wie schon lange nicht mehr. Die Novembermorde von Paris stellen unser eurozentrisches Selbstverständnis radikal auf die Probe. Alain Badiou stellt entscheidende Fragen: Wie konnte es zu den Gewaltexzessen kommen? Wie können westliche Gesellschaften darauf reagieren...

La filosofía frente al comunismo pone en escena la intensa labor intelectual que Alain Badiou, uno de los pensadores más destacados e influyentes de nuestra época, ha desplegado en los últimos años en torno a los problemas de la filosofía, el sujeto y la política. Entendiendo al comunismo como...

««Inchiniamoci all’erede di Platone: Badiou è il più grande filosofo vivente».» Slavoj Žižek Chi, durante l’infanzia, non ha fatto l’esperienza spaventosa di avanza­re a tastoni nella notte nera? Alain Badiou, il più celebre filosofo fran­cese, prende le mosse dai giochi infantili...

Im ersten Band der Reihe Passagen Gespräche entfaltet Alain Badiou im Gespräch mit Peter Engelmann vor dem Hintergrund aktueller gesellschaftlicher Krisenszenarien seine Argumente, warum er trotz negativer historischer Erfahrungen an der Idee des Kommunismus festhält. Zentrale Themen sind dabei die...

È possibile modificare il mondo e, in un certo senso, inventarlo ogni giorno? Oppure il reale è un orizzonte normativo al quale possiamo solo sottometterci? Alain Badiou, tra i più grandi filosofi francesi viventi della generazione di Deleuze e Lyotard, propone in questo libro una “ricerca del...

Tra il 1992 e il 1996 Alain Badiou dedica il seminario che tiene presso l’École normale supérieure alla defi nizione della nozione di antifi losofi a. Dopo aver ripercorso il pensiero di Nietzsche (1992-1993) e prima di affrontare Lacan (1994-1995) e san Paolo (1995-1996), il filosofo francese...

Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the...

Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four...

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...

'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline...

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...