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Alain Badiou (/ b ɑː ˈ d j uː /; [3] 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 ...
The Century is a book about politics, philosophy and literature by Alain Badiou, first published in French by Éditions du Seuil in 2005; the English translation by Alberto Toscano was published by Polity Press in 2007.
Discussing Badiou's Metapolitics, Bruno Bosteels asserts that: “Badiou argues against the tradition of political philosophy, which he associates with the likes of Hannah Arendt and Claude Lefort , by proposing to think not of ‘the political’ (le politique) but of ‘politics’ (la politique) as an active form of thinking, or thought ...
Alain Badiou, Meillassoux's former teacher, wrote the foreword. [4] Badiou describes the work as introducing a new possibility for philosophy which is different from Immanuel Kant's three alternatives of criticism, skepticism, and dogmatism. [5] The book was translated into English by Ray Brassier.
Badiou [ edit ] In Being and Event , Alain Badiou writes that the event ( événement ) is a multiple which basically does not make sense according to the rules of the "situation," in other words existence.
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Alain Badiou claims that Deleuze's metaphysics only apparently embraces plurality and diversity, remaining at bottom monist. Badiou further argues that, in practical matters, Deleuze's monism entails an ascetic, aristocratic fatalism akin to ancient Stoicism .
Jason Barker (born 1971) is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, a novelist, film director, screenwriter, and producer.He is Honorable Professor at Kyung Hee University in the College of Foreign Language and Literature, [1] where he teaches a masters course on Marxism and Literature with the British philosopher Ray Brassier. [2]