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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 · Knowledge and Truth. Badiou’s central proposition is that knowledge does not give access to truth. Truth is a ‘hole’ in knowledge, even if being and knowledge go together. Truth here is the truth of the event as that which changes the basic parameters of how the world is known and understood.
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).
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:
Alain Badiou has arrived at what is perhaps the crowning moment of his career. His magnum opus of 1988, Being and Event, was finally published in English this year. His much-anticipated sequel, Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds)—his first major philosophical work in eighteen years—appeared in France in March.
May 18, 2012 · Alain Badiou, venerable Maoist, 75-year-old soixante-huitard, vituperative excoriator of Sarkozy and Hollande and such a controversial figure in France that when he was profiled in Marianne ...
Aug 25, 2021 · 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.
Jan 26, 2023 · The systematic nature of Badiou’s philosophy has been developed over the last half-century to counter-act the tradition of critical theory and negation. He does so, first, by once again supporting the possibility of “the subject” (the individual)...
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