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Alain Badiou's first major work, Le Concept de modele, originally published in 1969 and long out of print, establishes a solid mathematical basis for a rational materialism, which undermines the implicit assumptions of a predominating 'bourgeois epistemology'. Readers familiar with Badiou will no doubt find within this early text the lineaments of his later radical developments. The translation will be published with an accompanying interview ...

Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.

Twice in its history, philosophy has arisen from the sophists' threat: first with Plato and then again with Kant, who saved it from Humean skepticism. Today, when we again live in an era of globalized sophism (deconstructionist relativism, finite "weak thought"), Alain Badiou's project is no less than to repeat the Platonic-Kantian move, and to reestablish philosophy as the theory of universal Truth. The task is immense--and the miracle is tha...

Come riflettere sulle stragi compiute a Parigi il 13 novembre 2015? Chi sono gli agenti di questo crimine di massa? E come possiamo qualificare la loro azione? È necessario allargare lo sguardo. Alain Badiou cerca qui di delineare il quadro generale su cui si staglia questo tipo di attentati. In Occidente ha trionfato il liberismo e la classe media, sempre piú impoverita, vive divisa tra l'orgoglio del proprio modello di società e la paura cos...

Ist Politik denkbar?" ist ein philosophisches wie politisches Buch, aber kein Buch der politischen Philosophie. Es stellt die Frage wie sich angesichts realsozialistischer Verwaltung und stalinistischer Pervertierung der kommunistischen Idee der universale Anspruch einer wahrhaft emanzipatorischen, kollektiven Politik aufrechterhalten lässt?Damit richtet es sich gegen die der politischen Philosophie lieb gewordene These einer Krise des Politis...

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The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of num...

This volume presents a new proposal for the link between philosophy and art. Badiou identifies and rejects the three schemes of didacticism, romanticism, and classicism that he sees as having governed traditional "aesthetics, " and seeks a fourth mode of accounting for the educative value of works of art.

A witty dissection of the French political scene, by the leading philosopher.

An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continuedimportance of communism.

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Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.