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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).
==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]].
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==
{{Wikiquote}}
*[http://www.lacan.com/bibliographyb.htm Alain Badiou Bibliography]
*[http://www.lacan.com/frameabad.htm Alain Badiou page at lacan dot com]
*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/badiou.html Badiou Faculty profile at the European Graduate School]
*[http://www.ci-philo.asso.fr/default_fixe.asp Collège International de Philosophie]
*[http://orgapoli.net/ Organisation politique]
*[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]]) ====In other languages==== *{{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] [[Category:1937 births|Badiou, Alain]][[Category:Living people|Badiou, Alain]][[Category:20th century philosophers|Badiou, Alain]][[Category:Continental philosophers|Badiou, Alain]][[Category:French philosophers|Badiou, Alain]][[Category:PeopleAlumni of the École Normale Supérieure|Badiou, Alain]]
