Author: Alain Badiou

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order...

In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterrane...

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics...

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parli...

In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he ...

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics...

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...

Since the inception of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its pol...

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy and anatomizes the antiphilosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In ...

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great intere...

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 ...

An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, r...

Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful o...

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim people as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the i...

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they ar...

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they ar...

Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental trad...