Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou (1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the communist tradition.

Works

(in French unles noted)

Monographs

• Théorie du sujet, Paris: Seuil, 1982.
• Peut-on penser la politique?, Paris: Seuil, 1985.
• L’Être et l’Événement, Paris: Seuil, 1988.
• Manifeste pour la philosophie, Paris: Seuil, 1989.
• Le Nombre et les Nombres, Paris: Seuil, 1990.

• Conditions, Paris: Seuil, 1992, DJVU.
  • Condiciones, trans. Eduardo Lucio Molina y Vedia, intro. François Wahl, Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1992; 2002, 2003, PDF. (Spanish) [1]

• L’éthique, essai sur la conscience du mal, Paris: Hatier, 1993; reprint, Caen: NOUS, 2003.
• Deleuze, Paris: Hachette, 1997.

• Court traité d'ontologie transitoire, Paris: Seuil, 1998, PDF.

• Second manifeste pour la philosophie, Paris: Flammarion, 2010, PDF.

Lectures

• Le Séminaire, Vol. 1, Lacan: L'antiphilosophie 3 (1994-1995), Paris: Fayard, 2013.
• Le Séminaire, Vol. 2, Malebranche: L’Être 2 - Figure théologique (1986), Paris: Fayard, 2013.
• Le Séminaire - Parménide. Figure ontologique, Paris: Fayard, 2014.
• Le Séminaire - Images du temps présent: 2001-2004, ed. Isabelle Vodoz, Paris: Fayard, 2014, PDF.
• Le Séminaire - Heidegger. L'Être 3. Figure du retrait, Paris: Fayard, 2015.

Literature

• Steven Corcoran, The Badiou Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, PDF. (English)

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Badiou
• http://mideastdilemma.com/alain_badiou_archive.html