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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 ...
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 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.
Oct 26, 2015 · That transcendent turbulence of mutual truth-refinement is a centerpiece of the altogether fantastic In Praise of Love (public library) by French philosopher Alain Badiou (b. January 17, 1937) — an impassioned and immensely insightful defense of both love as a human faculty and love as a worthwhile philosophical pursuit.
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.
Alain Badiou is one of France’s leading philosophers. 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).
Apr 1, 2014 · Badiou's thought is ‘between’ theology and anti-theology because it is between philosophy and what Badiou calls ‘anti-philosophy’, relying as it does on a close proximity with, and borrowings from, a range of anti-philosophers, most notably Pascal and Kierkegaard.
The philosophy of Alain Badiou is an impossible wager. Arguably the most ambitious speculative thinker since Hegel and the most materialist since Lucretius, Badiou defies the liberal diplomacy of the linguistic turn and the crisis of Western metaphysics in a heroic effort to rescue philosophy from its time in exile.
^ The Nouvel Obs invited the philosophers Alain Finkielkraut and Alain Badiou, members of opposite political camps, to talk about national identity. According to Aude Lancelin who moderated the discussion, "it came to an ideological confrontation of rare violence".
