Author: Alain Badiou

The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a politics of subtraction far removed from party ...

Alain Badious 19831984 lecture series on the One is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical con...

One of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceOver the last six years, Greece has provided...

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...

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...

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...

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 lect...

The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word migrant really mean today and how should w...

This volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the v...

This volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the v...

Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American FoundationAlain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationshi...

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

The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word migrant really mean today and how should w...

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because ca...

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because ca...

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's fam...

For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to pol...

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He expla...

Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American FoundationAlain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationshi...

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the French moment in contemporary thought.Badiou...

Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towa...