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This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou’s [[thought]]. Responding to Tarby’s questions, [[Badiou ]] takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four [[conditions ]] of [[philosophy]]: [[politics]], [[love]], art and [[science]]. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the [[event ]] is grasped, elaborated and embedded in the [[world ]] – this is what Badiou calls a ‘truth ‘[[truth]] procedure’. The event creates a possibility but there then has to be an effort – a group effort in the [[case ]] of politics, an [[individual ]] effort in the case of love or art – for this possibility to become [[real ]] and inscribed in the world.

As he explains his [[thinking ]] on politics, love, art and science, Badiou takes stock of his major works, reflects on their central themes and arguments and looks forward to the questions he plans to address in his [[future ]] writings. The book concludes with a short introduction to Badiou’s philosophy by Fabien Tarby.

For anyone wishing to [[understand ]] the [[work ]] of one of the most widely read and influential [[philosophers ]] [[writing ]] today, this small book will be an indispensable [[guide]].----[[Alain ]] Badiou is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, [[Paris]]. He is one of the most widely read and influential philosophers writing today.

Fabien Tarby is a [[philosopher ]] and [[author ]] of several books, including a study of the philosophy of [[Alain Badiou]].