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==Book Description==
''[[Badiou]] and [[Politics]]'' offers a much-anticipated [[interpretation]] of the [[work]] of the influential [[French]] [[philosopher]] [[Alain]] Badiou. Countering [[ideas]] of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the [[event]] as a radical break, [[Bruno Bosteels]] reveals Badiou’s deep and ongoing investment in the [[dialectic]]. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou’s writings, from the philosopher’s student days in the 1960s to the [[present]], as well as on Badiou’s exchanges with [[other]] thinkers, from his avowed “masters” Louis [[Althusser]] and Jacques [[Lacan]], to interlocutors including Gilles [[Deleuze]], [[Slavoj Žižek]], Daniel Bensaïd, Jacques [[Derrida]], Ernesto [[Laclau]], and [[Judith]] [[Butler]]. Bosteels tracks the philosopher’s [[political]] activities from the events of May [[1968]] through his embrace of Maoism and the work he has done since the 1980s, helping to mobilize France’s illegal immigrants or ''sans-papiers''. Ultimately, Bosteels argues for [[understanding]] Badiou’s [[thought]] as a revival of [[dialectical]] [[materialism]], and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of [[theory]]: to define a [[conceptual]] [[space]] for [[thinking]] [[emancipatory politics]] in the present.
