Alain Badiou

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born

January 17, 1937 in Rabat, Morocco

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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Average rating: 3.85 · 1,575 ratings · 169 reviews · 91 distinct works

	Ethics by Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Being and Event by Alain Badiou, Oliver Feltham (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Metapolitics by Alain Badiou, Jason Barker (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Communist Hypothesis 3.48 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Century 4.17 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Infinite Thought by Alain Badiou, Justin Clemens (Editor), Oliver Feltham (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 83 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Deleuze: The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou, Louise Churchill (Translator) 3.48 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Meaning of Sarkozy 3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:

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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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“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
― Alain Badiou, Ethics

tags: compulsion , evil , good , strength

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