Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of the present.

A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author’s whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau…

Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present."

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy. This title presents a hypothesis that is partly a…

Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism…

This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou s thought. Responding to Tarby s questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four…

The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today…