Alain Badiou

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born

in Rabat, Morocco

January 17, 1937

gender

male

website

http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alain-badiou/biography/

genre

Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics

influences

Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze

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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 com...more

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	Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward (Translator) 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Being and Event by Alain Badiou, Oliver Feltham (Translator) 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier (Translator) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Communist Hypothesis 3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metapolitics by Alain Badiou, Jason Barker (Translator) 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Century 4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinite Thought by Alain Badiou, Justin Clemens (Editor), Oliver Feltham (Editor) 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deleuze: The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou, Louise Churchill (Translator) 3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano (Translator) 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 82 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
― Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

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“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”
― Alain Badiou, Metapolitics

tags: mind, ontology, philosophy, politics, resistance-theory

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“Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.”
― Alain Badiou, Conditions

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