Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France Both have attracted controversy in the…

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…

The author argues that the Barbie trial attests to the failure of international society to take responsibility for crimes of the state. He maintains that trying Barbie for actions on…

Who hasn’t had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called…

In this innovative reimagining of Plato’s Republic, one of philosophy’s best known texts, Alain Badiou removes all references specific to ancient Greek society and modernizes the work’s cultural ties. Socrates…

In two lectures given in the US immediately after Trump's election, Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary event, showing it as symptomatic of a global crisis…

Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou’s first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the end of philosophy. In lieu of this problematic of the end, he put…

Plato’s Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500…