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Alain Badiou (born 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent French left-wing philosopher formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS).
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Biography
Badiou was trained formally as a philosopher as a student at the ENS from 1956 to 1961, a period during which he took courses at the Sorbonne. He had a lively and constant interest in mathematics. He was politically active very early on, and was one of the founding members of the United Socialist Party (PSU), an offshoot of the French Communist Party. The PSU was particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria. He wrote his first novel, Almagestes, in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by Louis Althusser and grew increasingly influenced by Jacques Lacan.
The student uprisings of May 1968 had a huge impact on Badiou. While 1968 politicized many intellectuals, it served to reinforce Badiou's commitment to the far left, and he continued to organize communist and Maoist groups such as the UCFML. In 1969 he joined the faculty of University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis), which was a bastion of counter-cultural thought. There he engaged in fierce intellectual debates with fellow professors Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard, whose leftist philosophy he considered an unhealthy deviation of more main-line Marxism. In 1988 he published what is now considered by many to be his major statement, L'être et l'événement. He took up his current position at the ENS in 1999. He is also associated with a number of other institutions, such as the European Graduate School and the Collège International de Philosophie. He is now a member of "L'Organisation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.
External links
- Alain Badiou Bibliography
- Alain Badiou page at lacan dot com
- Badiou Faculty profile at the European Graduate School
- Collège International de Philosophie
- Organisation politique
- Blooded by Thought - Bibliography, Resource (updated 04.01.2006)
Articles by Badiou
In English
- Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy (from Metapolitics)
- Number and Numbers (A partial translation of Badiou's book Le nombre et les nombres on Number Theory; PDF)
- On the Truth-Process (Lecture and discussion)
- The Political as a Truth Procedure (from Metapolitics)
- The Scene of Two (English translation from De l'amour)
- The Subject of Art (Deitch Projects, New York, April 1 2005)
- What Happens (On Beckett; PDF)
- What is to be Thought? What is to be Done? (On the 2002 French elections; written by Badiou, Sylvain Lazarus and Natasha Michel)
- What is Love? (PDF)
In French
- De la dialectique négative dans sa connexion à un certain bilan de Wagner (part one; part two) (Two lectures on Theodor Adorno and Richard Wagner)
- De l'idéologie (PDF)
- Notes sur Le Dernier des hommes (On the movie The Last Laugh by Murnau)
In other languages
- Template:Es icon en "Grupo Acontecimiento"
- Template:Es icon en "antroposmoderno"
- Template:Es icon en "Turbulencias"
- Template:Es icon La Etica (Translation of Badiou's book on ethics)
- Template:Es icon Nietzsche, filosofía y antifilosofía (On Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Template:It icon Il cinema come falso movimento
- Template:It icon Si può parlare di un film?
Interviews
- AGR interviews Professor Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Shane Perlowin)
- Being by Numbers (part one; part two; part three; part four; part five; Badiou interviewed by Lauren Sedofsky)
- Beyond Formalisation (Badiou interviewed by Peter Hallward and Bruno Bosteels; questions in English, answers in French)
- A Conversation with Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Mario Goldenberg)
- Template:Es icon "Las democracias están en guerra contra los pobres" (Badiou interviewed by Héctor Pavón; PDF)
- Template:Es icon Entrevista a Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Julia Goldenberg)
- Template:Fr icon L’être, l’événement, la militance (Badiou interviewed by Nicole-Édith Thévenin)
- Template:Es icon "Las ideas existen y tienen poder" (Badiou interviewed by Pedro B. Rey)
- On Evil (Badiou interviewed by Christoph Cox and Molly Whalen)
- "Universal Truths & the Question of Religion" (Badiou interviewed by Adam S. Miller)
Audio
- Template:Fr icon Journée Wagner (part one; part two)
- Alain Badiou Live: The Subject of Art New York City, April 1 2005
- Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics London, November 26 2005
- Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable Part 1 New York City, March 8 2006
- Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable Part 2 New York City, March 8 2006
Video
- Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics (Lecture and discussion)
- On Beckett
- On the Construction of a Truth