Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou (1937) is a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer known for his contribution to contemporary thought. His work spans philosophy, political theory, and literature, with a strong influence from structuralism and Marxism. Among his most notable books is Being and Event (1988), where he develops his ontological theory based on mathematics. He is also the author of Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (1993) and Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997).

Badiou has explored themes such as truth, love, politics, and art, proposing a philosophy that challenges hegemonic thinking. His innovative and provocative approach has influenced contemporary philosophical debate, establishing him as a key figure in 21st-century philosophy.

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Alain Badiou Books

Alain Badiou Books

We found 244 Books for alain badiou

The Agony of Eros (Untimely Meditations)

in praise of love. alain badiou with nicolas truong

in praise of love

Badiou by Badiou (Cultural Memory in the Present)

I Know There are so Many of you

For a Politics of the Common Good

Our Wound Is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November

Being and Event (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Confrontation: A Conversation With Aude Lancelin

Philosophy in the Present

The End: A Conversation

Trump

In Praise of Politics

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Migrants and Militants

A New Dawn for Politics

The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event iii

Mathematics of the Transcendental

Greece and the Reinvention of Politics

Matter and Form, Self-Evidence and Surprise: On Jean-Luc Moulène's Objects

Logics of Worlds: Being and Event ii (Bloomsbury Revelations)

In Praise of Mathematics

Metapolitics (Radical Thinkers)

The Idea of Communism, Volume 2: The New York Conference

the rational kernel of the hegelian dialectic

the concept of model,an introduction to the materialist epistemology of mathematics

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)

Controversies: Politics and Philosophy in our Time

The Adventure of French Philosophy

What is Philosophy? A Lecture by Alain Badiou 2010

Happiness

Second Manifesto for Philosophy

Jacques Lacan, Past And Present: A Dialogue

In Praise of Philosophy

Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (Theory out of Bounds)

The Century

Heidegger: His Life and his Philosophy (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

Cinema

The Pornographic age

number and numbers

handbook of inaesthetic

Can Politics be Thought? (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy

Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters, With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Theoretical Writings (Bloomsbury Revelations)

theory of the subject

German Philosophy: A Dialogue (Untimely Meditations)

The End: A Conversation

Migrants and Militants

Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses