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[[Alain Badiou]] (born 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly chair of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] (ENS).
  
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==Biography==
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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 [[University of Paris|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 (France)|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]].
    America and Roman Empire 211
 
    anti-communitarian communitarian
 
        172
 
    Being and Truth-Event 128-35,
 
        237-8
 
    beyond the Good 161
 
    Christianity and psychoanalysis
 
        145-51
 
    differences with Lacan 3, 159-64
 
    fidelity to the Truth-Event 164,
 
        166-7
 
    ideology and the Truth-Event 141-5
 
    influence of Althusser 128
 
    is the gap the subject? 158-9
 
    Master/Hysteric/University 164-5
 
    return to the Substance 209
 
    St Paul and psychoanalysis 153-4
 
    subjectivity 182-4
 
    transformation of Truth-Event into
 
        universal 157-8
 
    undecidability of the Event
 
        135-41
 
  
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The student uprisings of [[May 1968]] had a huge impact on Badiou. While [[1968]] politicized many [[intellectual]]s, 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.
  
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==Articles by Alain Badiou==
 
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<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Articles by Alain Badiou]]''</blockquote>
'''Alain Badiou''' (born [[1937]], [[Rabat]], [[Morocco]]) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly chair of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] (ENS).
 
 
 
==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 [[University of Paris|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 (France)|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]].
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==Resources==
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<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Resources for Alain Badiou]]''</blockquote>
  
The student uprisings of [[May 1968]] had a huge impact on Badiou. While [[1968]] politicized many [[intellectual]]s, 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==
 
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*[http://www.lacan.com/bibliographyb.htm Alain Badiou Bibliography]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/bibliographyb.htm Alain Badiou Bibliography]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/frameabad.htm Alain Badiou page at lacan dot com]
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/frameabad.htm Alain Badiou page at lacan dot com]
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*[http://students.washington.edu/schenold/badiou/ Blooded by Thought - Bibliography, Resource (updated 04.01.2006)]
 
*[http://students.washington.edu/schenold/badiou/ Blooded by Thought - Bibliography, Resource (updated 04.01.2006)]
  
===Articles by Badiou===
 
 
====In English====
 
 
*[http://newleftreview.co.uk/Issue35.asp?Article=04 The Adventure of French Philosophy]
 
 
*[http://www.islamonline.net/English/in_depth/hijab/2004-03/article_04.shtml Behind the Scarfed Law, There is Fear] (On the [[French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools| French headscarf ban]])
 
 
*[http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/481 The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?] ([[Portable Document Format| PDF]])
 
 
*[http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=17175 Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic]
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/badeight.htm Eight Theses on the Universal]
 
 
*[http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/669 An Essential Philosophical Thesis: "It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries"] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/issue22.htm Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art]
 
 
*[http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/649 Further Selections from ''Théorie du sujet'' on the Cultural Revolution] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/conceptsym.htm Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy] (from ''Metapolitics'')
 
 
*[http://blog.urbanomic.com/dread/archives/badiou-numbers.pdf Number and Numbers] (A partial translation of Badiou's book ''Le nombre et les nombres'' on [[Number Theory]]; PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/2005/05/badiou-on-eu.asp On the European Constitution]
 
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/badiou/badiou-truth-process-2002.html On the Truth-Process] (Lecture and discussion)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/divide.htm One Divides into Two] (On [[Lenin]])
 
 
*[http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=10144 Philosophy and Politics]
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/badtruth.htm The Political as a Truth Procedure] (from ''Metapolitics'')
 
 
*[http://www.irrationalnumbers.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/badiou-politics.pdf Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/frameXXI3.htm The Scene of Two] (English translation from ''De l'amour'')
 
 
*[http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/635 Selections from ''Théorie du sujet'' on the Cultural Revolution] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/symptom6_articles/badiou.html The Subject of Art] (Deitch Projects, New York, April 1 2005)
 
 
*[http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/659 The Triumphant Restoration] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.benstebbing.co.uk/ch4.pdf What Happens] (On [[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]]; PDF)
 
 
*[http://www.counterpunch.org/badiou0501.html What is to be Thought? What is to be Done?] (On the [[French presidential election, 2002| 2002 French elections]]; written by Badiou, [[Sylvain Lazarus]] and [[Natasha Michel]])
 
 
*[http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/Mellon/Badiou_What_Is_Love.pdf What is Love?] (PDF)
 
 
====In French====
 
 
*[http://ciepfc.rhapsodyk.net/article.php3?id_article=40 L'aveu du philosophe]
 
 
*[http://www.organisationpolitique.com/distance/36_37/6_conf_A.B.pdf Considérations philosophiques sur des événements récents] (On the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]; PDF)
 
 
*[http://orgapoli.net/article.php3?id_article=143&var_recherche=badiou De la demande de faire des lois et de la façon d'y répondre]
 
 
*De la dialectique négative dans sa connexion à un certain bilan de Wagner ([http://www.entretemps.asso.fr/Adorno/Badiou part one]; [http://www.entretemps.asso.fr/Adorno/Badiou/22janvier.htm part two]) (Two lectures on [[Theodor Adorno]] and [[Richard Wagner]])
 
 
*[http://etoilerouge.chez-alice.fr/docrevfra/ucfml2.pdf De l'idéologie] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://ciepfc.rhapsodyk.net/article.php3?id_article=44 Huit thèses sur l'universel]
 
 
*[http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-710389,0.html L'humiliation ordinaire] (On the [[2005 civil unrest in France]]; [http://lecolonelchabert.blogspot.com/2005/11/badiou.html translation])
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/dernier.htm Notes sur ''Le Dernier des hommes''] (On the movie [[The Last Laugh]] by [[F.W. Murnau| Murnau]])
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/badfrench.htm Panorama de la philosophie française contemporaine]
 
 
*[http://etoilerouge.chez-alice.fr/docrevfra/ucfml1.pdf Théorie de la contradiction] (PDF)
 
 
*[http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=217 Un, multiple, multiplicité(s)] (On [[Gilles Deleuze]])
 
 
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*{{es icon}} [http://www.grupoacontecimiento.com.ar/documentos/documentos.htm en "Grupo Acontecimiento"]
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=antroposmoderno.com&q=badiou&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=B%9Asqueda&sitesearch=antroposmoderno.com&client=pub-1455545019444106&forid=1&channel=9396407273&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%2339A9DB%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23000000%3BVLC%3A39A9DB%3BAH%3Aleft%3BBGC%3A404040%3BLBGC%3A000000%3BALC%3A39A9DB%3BLC%3A39A9DB%3BT%3AFFFFFF%3BGFNT%3A39A9DB%3BGIMP%3A39A9DB%3BLH%3A50%3BLW%3A261%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.antroposmoderno.com%2FPix%2Flogo_nuevo_g_antro.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=es en "antroposmoderno"]
 
*{{es icon}} [http://agora.ya.com/ivian/badiou.html en "Turbulencias"]
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.elortiba.org/badiou.html La Etica] (Translation of Badiou's book on [[ethics]])
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.nietzscheana.com.ar/badiou.htm Nietzsche, filosofía y antifilosofía] (On [[Friedrich Nietzsche]])
 
*{{it icon}} [http://www.kainos.it/Pages/artic%20emer02.html Il cinema come falso movimento]
 
*{{it icon}} [http://www.kainos.it/Pages/artic%20emer04.html Si può parlare di un film?]
 
 
===Interviews===
 
 
* [http://mambo.agrnews.rack2.purplecat.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=2  AGR interviews Professor Alain Badiou]  (Badiou interviewed by Shane Perlowin)
 
 
* Being by Numbers ([http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v33/ai_16315394 part one]; [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v33/ai_16315394/pg_2 part two]; [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v33/ai_16315394/pg_3 part three]; [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v33/ai_16315394/pg_4 part four]; [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n2_v33/ai_16315394/pg_5 part five]; Badiou interviewed by Lauren Sedofsky)
 
 
*[http://ciepfc.rhapsodyk.net/article.php3?id_article=48 Beyond Formalisation] (Badiou interviewed by Peter Hallward and Bruno Bosteels; questions in English, answers in French)
 
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXIII6.htm A Conversation with Alain Badiou] (Badiou interviewed by Mario Goldenberg)
 
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.grupoacontecimiento.com.ar/documentos/entrebadiou.pdf "Las democracias están en guerra contra los pobres"] (Badiou interviewed by Héctor Pavón; PDF)
 
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.lacan.com/jgbadiouf.htm Entrevista a Alain Badiou] (Badiou interviewed by Julia Goldenberg)
 
 
*{{fr icon}} [http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=620 L’être, l’événement, la militance] (Badiou interviewed by Nicole-Édith Thévenin)
 
 
*{{es icon}} [http://www.rebelion.org/cultura/040426ln.htm "Las ideas existen y tienen poder"] (Badiou interviewed by Pedro B. Rey)
 
 
*[http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php On Evil] (Badiou interviewed by Christoph Cox and Molly Whalen)
 
 
*[http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue3-1/Badiou/Badiou.html "Universal Truths & the Question of Religion"] (Badiou interviewed by Adam S. Miller)
 
 
[[Image:Badiou_being_and_appearance.png|thumb|left|230px|Drawing from Art's Imperative lecture]]
 
===Audio===
 
*{{fr icon}} Journée Wagner ([http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/audio/2005_05_14_wagner_01.mp3 part one]; [http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/audio/2005_05_14_wagner_02.mp3 part two])
 
*[http://www.lacan.com/badioulecture.html Alain Badiou Live: The Subject of Art] New York City, April 1 2005
 
*[http://www.open-organizations.org/view/Main/PoliticsOfTruth2005 Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics] London, November 26 2005
 
*[http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/soundcoalition@riseup.net/1663-1-20060318-Badiou_ArtsImperative_1of2.mp3 Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable Part 1] New York City, March 8 2006
 
*[http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/soundcoalition@riseup.net/1663-1-20060318-Badiou_ArtsImperative_2of2.mp3  Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable Part 2] New York City, March 8 2006
 
 
===Video===
 
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/deleuze/deleuze_day1_2.ram Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics] (Lecture and discussion)
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/video/alain-badiou-2003-hi-us.ram On Beckett]
 
*[http://www.egs.edu/video/alainbadiou_us.ram On the Construction of a Truth]
 
  
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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).

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.

Articles by Alain Badiou

Main Page: Articles by Alain Badiou

Resources

Main Page: Resources for Alain Badiou


External links