Badiou By Badiou

Contains an interview with Alain Badiou, held June 18, 2019 in Paris and two lectures: "Philosophy between mathematics and poetry" given May 9, 2019 in Brussels and "Ontology and mathematics" given June 17, 2019 at the American University of Paris.

List of contents

Part One: Event, Truths, Subject

Part Two: Philosophy Between Mathematics and Poetry

Part Three: Ontology and Mathematics

About the author

Alain Badiou is one of the most important living philosophers of our time as well as a novelist and playwright. Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he is also the author of numerous political essays and regularly intervenes on topics of great international urgency.Bruno Bosteels teaches in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. The author of numerous books, including Badiou and Politics and The Actuality of Communism, he is also the English translator of half a dozen of Badiou's texts.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou
• Assisted by: Bruno Bosteels (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781503630338
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3033-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works