Alain Badiou, Ph.D., born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School EGS. Alain Badiou was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works. Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation.
Books
Briefings on Existence
A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology
2002
Our Wound is Not So Recent
Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November
2015
The Rebirth of History
Times of Riots and Uprisings
2011
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present
A Dialogue
2012
Çivisi Çıkan Dünya
Covid-19 Salgını Üzerine Muhasebeler
2020
Pocket Pantheon
Figures of Postwar Philosophy
2008
Controversies
Politics and Philosophy in our Time
2012
Reflections On Anti-Semitism
2012
Badiou by Badiou
2022
Cinema
2010
Greece and the Reinvention of Politics
2018
Migrants and Militants
2020
Trump
2018
The Idea of Communism 2
The New York Conference
2011
The Immanence of Truths
Being and Event III
2022
Theory of the Subject
1982
Happiness
2015
Five Lessons on Wagner
2010
Number and Numbers
1990
In Praise of Mathematics
2015
In Praise of Love
2009
The Century
2005
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy
2008
Ahmed the Philosopher
Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else
2013
The Meaning of Sarkozy
2007
Heidegger
His Life and His Philosophy
2010
Polemics
2006
Lacan
Anti-Philosophy 3
2013
I Know There Are So Many of You
2017
The Age of the Poets
And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
2014
Deleuze
The Clamor of Being
1997
In Praise of Politics
2017
The True Life
2016
Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
1994
Saint Paul
The Foundation of Universalism
1997
On Beckett
2006
Infinite Thought
Truth and the Return to Philosophy
1998
What Is a People?
2013
The Communist Hypothesis
2009
Logics of Worlds
Being and Event II
2006
Philosophy and the Event
2009
There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Two Lessons on Lacan
2010
Conditions
1992
The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic
2011
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
2017
The Adventure of French Philosophy
2012
Metapolitics
1998
Lacan
The Silent Partners
2006
Philosophy for Militants
2012
Black
The Brilliance of a Non-Color
2016
Manifesto for Philosophy
1989
Handbook of Inaesthetics
2002
The Pornographic Age
2013
Plato's Republic
2012
Being And Event
1988
Can Politics Be Thought?
2019
Second Manifesto for Philosophy
2009
Confrontation
A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
2014
Mathematics of the Transcendental
2013
For a Politics of the Common Good
2019
The Concept of Model
An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics
1969
Malebranche
Theological Figure, Being 2
2013
Theoretical Writings
2004
In Praise of Theatre
2015
Rhapsody For The Theatre
2013
