Logics of Worlds
Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of mult...
Trump
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 p...
Pornographic Age
Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must be...
Philosophy and the Event
This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou's thought.¿ Responding to Tarby's questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In ...
Being and Event
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. B...
Our Wound is Not So Recent
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...
Cinema
For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends t...
Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to...
Black
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...
Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to...
In Praise of Theatre
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 interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by ...
Happiness
'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness?or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The ...
In Praise of Mathematics
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 hap...
Conditions
This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, "Being and Event" in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great conditions of philosophy - this book is t...
In Praise of Mathematics
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 hap...
Century
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstract...
Philosophy and the Event
This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou's thought.¿ Responding to Tarby's questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In ...
Theory of the Subject
Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including "Being and Event") can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of "Theory of the Subject"...
New Dawn for Politics
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 capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by...
Immanence of Truths
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanen...
True Life
'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 ...
The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche
The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Malebranche
Malebranche
The Immanence of Truths
The Immanence of Truths
In Praise of Politics
In Praise of Politics
In Praise of Philosophy
What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors from different countries and philosophical cultures – John After from Britain, Amantha from Greece, B’adj Akil from Senegal, Xi La Pong from China and several others. Their conversation takes readers on a playful journey through the history of philosophy framed by the five great questions that have preoccupied Alain Badiou: democracy, freedom, universality, language and being. At the same time, philosophy is presented not as a system or doctrine but as movement and dialogue. The philosopher is not a solitary figure; he is inseparable from his pupils, his disciples and his adversaries. It is only at the end of the journey that he arrives at the written, stable forms of his work. So we are dealing more with a play than a treatise, more with dialogues than monologues, more with a course than
In Praise of Philosophy
What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors from different countries and philosophical cultures – John After from Britain, Amantha from Greece, B’adj Akil from Senegal, Xi La Pong from China and several others. Their conversation takes readers on a playful journey through the history of philosophy framed by the five great questions that have preoccupied Alain Badiou: democracy, freedom, universality, language and being. At the same time, philosophy is presented not as a system or doctrine but as movement and dialogue. The philosopher is not a solitary figure; he is inseparable from his pupils, his disciples and his adversaries. It is only at the end of the journey that he arrives at the written, stable forms of his work. So we are dealing more with a play than a treatise, more with dialogues than monologues, more with a course than
A Political Life: 1937 - 1985
In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it within the political history of the twentieth century. Born in Morocco on the eve of catastrophic conflict, Badiou’s childhood and youth were marked by the Second World War and the Algerian War, experiences that would shape his political consciousness. Badiou honed his political convictions as an activist and organizer among students and workers and in solidarity with the Algerian independence movement, but his life was upended and transformed by May ’68 in ways that were profoundly consequential for his philosophical thought. By weaving his philosophical ideas into the narrative of his life, we see how the concepts for which Badiou is well-known – such as subject, being, event and truth – operate in the domain of experience and history. Written in an engaging and often playful style, this book illuminates both the unique trajectory
Lykke
”Lykke er en risiko, som vi er nødt til at tage.” Den franske filosof Alain Badiou angriber i denne lille bog den forestilling, at lykke er et spørgsmål om at skabe overensstemmelse mellem sine personlige behov og det, som verden tilbyder os og kategoriserer som ”det gode liv”. Han opponerer mod den positive psykologi og “lykkeindustrien”, der fortæller os, at det gælder det om at planlægge livet efter forskrifterne for, hvad der giver den største sikkerhed for at opnå lykke. Men ifølge Badiou er lykke præcis det modsatte af sikkerhed og planlægning. Lykke involverer altid en risiko, som fx når vi i kærlighedsmødet vælger at overgive os til dets uforudsigelighed. For at det, Badiou kalder ”reel lykke”, kan blive mulig, kræves også et opgør med den (forbruger-)tilfredshed, der ifølge Badiou præsenteres som lykke i dag. Opgaven med at skabe lykke finder dermed sted både på det individuelle og på det kollektive, politiske plan. Og den går ud på at blive noget, vi ikke troede, vi var i
Deleuze
This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work'
Rhapsody for the Theatre
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 politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or statements, which are collectively enacted by a gro...
Five Lessons on Wagner
For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosoph...
I Know There Are So Many of You
I Know There Are So Many of You
Infinite Thought
Infinite Thought
Mathematics of the Transcendental
Mathematics of the Transcendental
The Age of the Poets
The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the 'age of the poets,' which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, 'The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,' Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.
Ahmed the Philosopher
Ahmed the Philosopher
Andra manifestet för filosofin
Det är nu tjugo år sedan jag i mitt första Manifest för filosofin vände mig emot tillkännagivandet av filosofins ”slut”, som då kungjordes överallt. Gentemot denna slutets problematik föreslog jag att strävan borde vara att ta ”ännu ett steg”. Nu har situationen förändrats betydligt. Om filosofin vid den tiden hotades till sin existens, skulle man kunna hävda att den idag är lika hotad, men av motsatt skäl: filosofin förlänas en artificiell existens av överdrivna mått. Filosofin används som firm
Polemics
Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At on...