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Alain Badiou (/ b ɑː ˈ d j uː /; French: [alɛ̃ badju] ⓘ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou's work is heavily ...
Alain Badiou (b. 1937) is a French philosopher and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. He is one of the most significant philosophers of our time. While Badiou’s political position has drawn him the most attention within academia and beyond, it is his ontology that is the center of his system.
Mar 6, 2018 · The collection of his essays, Infinite Thought (2003a), sets out, in schematic form, a number of the key themes of Badiou’s philosophical stance, a stance that re-joins Jean-Paul Sartre ’s philosophie engagee: a philosophy of commitment, or more literally: a philosophy engaged with the world.
Alain Badiou (b. 1937) is a leading French philosopher and European intellectual. He is the former chair of philosophy and emeritus professor at the École Normale Supérieure, one of France’s most prestigious and well-known graduate schools.
Badiou examines the mathematical developments of set theory found in the work of Georg Cantor, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel, and Paul Cohen, and integrates them into his own philosophical system.
Oct 26, 2015 · A century after Tolstoy wrote to Gandhi that “love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills,” Badiou argues that love is the most potent antidote to the self-interest that dominates the modern world and our greatest hope for bridging the gaping divide between self and other:
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A student of the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, Badiou led a Maoist sect in the 1970s and continues to work as a political activist. He is the author of L’Être et l’évenement (Éditions du Seuil) and Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Verso).
