Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will...
El siglo xx ha sido juzgado y condenado: siglo del terror totalitario, de las ideologías utópicas y criminales, de las ilusiones vacías, de los genocidios, de las falsas vanguardias, de la abstracción como sustituto ubicuo del...
With a brand new preface by the author, written especially for the English edition, as a critical introduction by the translator, Bruno Bosteels. Badiou attempts to provide a theory of the subject of Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis....
A collection of essays of the author. Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', it goes on to propose a definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary...
The Concept of Model is the first of Alain Badiou's early books to be translated fully into English. With this publication English readers finally have access to a crucial work by one of the world's greatest living philosophers. Written on the...
Presents a comprehensive overview of Alain Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between...
Here, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a reinterpretation of St Paul. He argues that Paul delineates a new figure of the subject:the bearer of a universal truth that simultaneously shatters the strictness of Judaic Law and the conventions of the...