Philosopher
Alain Badiou
Overview
Alain Badiou (; French: [alɛ̃ badju] ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure 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 informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought. Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of universalism and truth. His work is notable for his widespread applications of various conceptions of indifference. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force.
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Philosophers who discussed Alain Badiou
- Gilles Deleuze
- Ray Brassier
- Michel Foucault
- Gottlob Frege
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Quentin Meillassoux
- Bernard Stiegler
- Louis Althusser
- Aeon (magazine)
- Alenka Zupančič
Ideas Alain Badiou discusses
- Roger Scruton
- The Holocaust
- Polity (publisher)
- Georg Cantor
- Gilles Deleuze
- Le Monde
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Ray Brassier
- Forcing (mathematics)
- Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
- Atheism
- Bachelor of Arts
- Jacques Lacan
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Slavoj Žižek
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Physical object
- Metaphysics
- Marxism
- The Guardian
- BBC
- Nelson Mandela
- Platonism
Place in the tradition
Part of Essentialism.