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''The [[Concept ]] of Model ''is the first of [[Alain ]] Badiou’s early books to be translated fully into [[English]]. With this publication English readers finally have access to a crucial [[work ]] by one of the world’s greatest [[living ]] [[philosophers]]. Written on the eve of the events of May [[1968]],'' The Concept of [[Model]]'' provides a solid [[mathematical ]] basis for a rationalist [[materialism]]. Badiou’s concept of model distinguishes itself from both [[logical ]] [[positivism ]] and [[empiricism ]] by introducing a new [[form ]] of break into the hitherto implicated realms of [[science ]] and [[ideology]], and establishing a new way to [[understand ]] their disjunctive relation. Readers coming to [[Badiou ]] for the first [[time ]] will be struck by the clarity and force of his presentation, and the key [[place ]] that ''The Concept of Model ''[[enjoys ]] in the overall [[development ]] of Badiou’s [[thought ]] will enable readers already familiar with his work to discern the lineaments of his later radical developments. This [[translation ]] is accompanied by a stunning new interview with Badiou in which he elaborates on the connections between his early and most [[recent ]] thought.