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[[English]]-[[speaking ]] readers might be surprised to learn that [[Alain ]] [[Badiou ]] writes [[fiction ]] and plays along with his [[philosophical ]] works and that they are just as important to [[understanding ]] his larger [[intellectual ]] [[project]]. In ''Ahmed the [[Philosopher]]'', Badiou’s most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first [[time]], readers are introduced to Badiou’s [[philosophy ]] through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in [[France]].

''Ahmed the Philosoph''er presents its comic hero, the “treacherous servant” Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The [[comedy ]] unfolds as a series of lessons, with each “short play” or [[sketch ]] illuminating a different Badiousian [[concept]]. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and [[performative ]] aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic [[energy ]] that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the [[world]]. Through his example, the audience is moved to a [[living ]] engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the [[power ]] to break through the limits of everyday [[life]].