Alain Badiou: 112 books
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness?
That is precisely the issue at stake...
Jacques Rancière
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...
What Is To Be Done?
A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, things look a little different. New questions are arising about capitalism and democracy, new social movements are challenging...
Black
The Brilliance of a Non-Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of Midnight." The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned magazines, the beauty...
Collapse
Numerical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
An investigation of the nature and philosophical uses of number.
The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number. The volume includes an interview with Alain Badiou on the relation between philosophy, mathematics, and science, an in-depth interview with...
Our Wound is Not So Recent
Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?
In this short book the influential philosopher...
by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, Ivan Segre
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent
Since the inception of the “War on Terror,” Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians. A key ideological weapon...
Pocket Pantheon
Figures of Postwar Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today’s leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon—his teachers, opponents and allies—to...
Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece
Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with “an open-air political lesson.” The country’s deep economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this...
by Alain Badiou
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Alain Badiou revient ici sur les principaux éléments de sa philosophie de manière accessible et vivante, en la présentant dans l’horizon de la recherche du bonheur réel (comme effet que produit la vérité dans l’expérience d’un sujet). Dans la première partie, l’auteur explique pourquoi...
Petit panthéon portatif
Althusser, Borreil, Canguilhem, Cavaillès, G. Châtelet, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Hyppolite, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, F. Proust, Sartre
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2008
" Ceux qui, aux alentours de 1965, avaient entre vingt et trente ans, ont alors rencontré un nombre exceptionnel de maîtres dans le champ de la philosophie.
Les anciens comme Sartre, Lacan ou Canguilhem, étaient encore en pleine activité ; d'un peu plus jeunes, comme Althusser, déployaient...
L'antisémitisme partout
Aujourd'hui en France
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Une "vague d’antisémitisme en France" ? Pourquoi la dénonciation de cette "vague" a-t-elle commencé en 2002, quand a été lancée la guerre contre l’axe du Mal, en Afghanistan, en Irak, en Palestine ? Qu’en est-il de l’antisémitisme en France aujourd’hui ? Est-il,...