Alain Badiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 286608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Badiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Badiou |
| SIGNATURE | BADIOU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Normale Supérieure |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 98 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
This book analyses how freedom can become a signifier of disorientation and oppression. Its main claim is that this becomes effective and operative by creating an “ideology of freedom” that relies on turning freedom into a natural capacity to indifferently choose. The book shows how modern philosophy repeatedly analyses this detrimental effect on our understanding and practices of freedom and can therefore serve as a critical guide against turnin…
Panorama de la filosofía francesa contemporánea
Como primer paso para hablar de filosofía francesa comienzo por una paradoja: eso que es lo más universal 3⁄4la filosofía3⁄4 es también, al mismo tiempo, lo más particular. Es lo que Hegel llama el universal concreto, la síntesis de lo que es absolutamente universal, que es para todos, y de lo que al mismo tiempo tiene un lugar y un momento particulares. Siendo absolutamente universal tiene particularidades nacionales y culturales. Hay eso que yo…
Panorama de la philosophie française contemporaine
Comme première étape pour parler de la philosophie française, je pars d'un paradoxe : ce qui est la 3⁄4philosophie3⁄4 la plus universelle est aussi, en même temps, la plus particulière. C'est ce que Hegel appelle l'universel concret, la synthèse de ce qui est absolument universel, qui est pour tous, et qui à la fois a une place et un moment particuliers. Absolument universel, il a des particularités nationales et culturelles. Il y a ce que j'appe…
Jullien the Apostate
Cutting through simultaneously the conventions of sinology and a capitalist universalism modeled on the West, Jullien unfolds a difference between Chinese thought and philosophy that allows it to be thought out without taking sides. His unusual move insists on the irreducibility of the difference yet at the same time renders the irreducibility intelligible; Jullien gives us a world structured by distinct lines of thought
Haïti
Immanence of Truths
"The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds ( 2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths , which he has been working on for 15 years. The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in Logics of Worlds. Where in that book, Badiou saw fit to analyze how truths, qua events, appe…
Immanence of Truths
Throwing the Moral Dice
From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy
The Paris Commune
Today the political visibility of the Paris Commune is not at all evident. At least, that is, if what we mean by "today" is the moment when we have to take up the challenge of thinking politics outside its subjection to the state and outside the framework of parties or party.... And yet the Commune was a political sequence that, precisely, did not situate itself in such a subjection or in such a framework. [To tackle] the political facts and dete…
C’était pendant l’horreur d’une profonde nuit. Sur l’élection de Donald Trump
On November 9th, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America. Alain Badiou, who was in the US during that time, responded to the election in a talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the program in Experimental Critical Theory and the Center for European and Russian Studies. The following text is a translation of the transcript of his response, originally written in English and publish…
O cinema como acontecimento
Esta é a primeira vez em que estou no México, e fico muito contente de estar com vocês e dirigir-lhes algumas palavras. Para um europeu - para um francês -, o México é um grande país porque constitui uma grande memória artística. Não tinha vindo ao México, mas assisti, naturalmente, ao filme de Eisenstein Que viva México! (¡Que viva Mexico!, 1932). Não tinha vindo ao México, mas ouvi sobre as civilizações pré-colombianas indígenas, muito numerosa…
Ontologie et mathématiques
This paper examines the relationship between philosophy and its conditions. The affirmation “mathematics is ontology”, which I posited thirty years ago, has certain inconveniences. In this article, I present six varying possibilities for ontology. My own philosophical decision was to proclaim that being is a pure multiplicity, without the One and without any specific attribute such as “matter” or “spirit”. This movement of thought brought me to s…
Leçons du mouvement des Gilets jaunes
Love Must be Reinvented
Love Must be Reinvented Translated by Alain Badiou (bio) and Duane Rousselle Discourse at Sciences Po on March 27th, 2018, with an introductory paragraph and some additional remarks in square brackets. Double square brackets are translator notes. To speak about love, to speak about sex, to speak about men and women, about their relation and about their non-relation is today, you know by the fuss of the gazettes, risky business. It is even more ri…
For a Politics of the Common Good
Trump
In Praise of Politics
Communism is a new idea
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
Lacan
German Philosophy
Entretien à propos du réalisme spéculatif
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In Search of Lost Prose
In Search of Lost Prose Alain Badiou English Translation by Jacob Levi and Lucy Bergeret March 25, 1984, a quarter century ago. Let us imagine Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe on the banks of the Neckar, near the tower. It is here that we can situate Lacoue's French translation of the definition of poetry that Paul Celan proposes in The Meridian. A translation that follows, and at least in certain places opposes, the translations by Blanchot, André du Bo…
Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word “People”
What Is a People
Althusser et nous
Beyond formalisation an interview
We Need a Popular Discipline
Politics and philosophy an interview with Alain Badiou
1998). Politics and philosophy an interview with Alain Badiou. Angelaki: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 113-133
The Cultural Revolution
Translated by Bruno Bosteels
What Is a People
Verdade e sujeito
Leçons du mouvement des Gilets jaunes
Is there a theory of the subject in Georges Canguilhem
Although there is no clear-cut doctrine of the subject in the work of Georges Canguilhem, nevertheless there is a sense in which the subject functions as a kind of operator in his work. This article delineates three aspects of such an operative function: a quasi-ontological discontinuity separating the living from the non-living; a discontinuity separating technique from science; and an ethical discontinuity that can be exemplified in the case of…
Seven Variations on the Century
Today we are forced to endure the dominance of an artificial individualism. In France, in 1995, millions of people demonstrated, rallied by the one slogan: ‘together!’ – what Paul Celan, in his poem Anabasis, named the ‘tent-word’. In Seattle and Prague, the rights of collectivities have been declared against the transnational institutions of global finance. In response to all of this, propaganda offers us the ‘selfevident’ rights of the individu…
Fragments d'un journal public sur la guerre américaine contre l'Irak
Le Concept de modèle. Introduction à une épistémologie matérialiste des mathématiques
Le Concept de modèle. Introduction à une épistémologie matérialiste des mathématiques
Peut-on penser la politique
L' être et l'événement
Conditions
Politique et philosophie dans l'œuvre de Louis Althusser
Verdade e sujeito
Politics and philosophy an interview with Alain Badiou
1998). Politics and philosophy an interview with Alain Badiou. Angelaki: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 113-133
Is there a theory of the subject in Georges Canguilhem
Although there is no clear-cut doctrine of the subject in the work of Georges Canguilhem, nevertheless there is a sense in which the subject functions as a kind of operator in his work. This article delineates three aspects of such an operative function: a quasi-ontological discontinuity separating the living from the non-living; a discontinuity separating technique from science; and an ethical discontinuity that can be exemplified in the case of…
Manifesto for philosophy
One of the most provocatively innovative thinkers writing in French today, Alain Badiou constantly unsettles his reader by not only absorbing but also reversing and displacing the major motifs of modernist 'antiphilosophy' from Nietzsche through Derrida. In the limpid, programmatic texts presented in readable translations here, Badiou sketches his project -- spelled out in his magnum opus, LʹEtre et lʹévénement -- to reestablish systematic philos…
Un, multiple, multiplicité(s)
Depuis si longtemps, depuis si peu de temps
1 . La reference « classique » essentielle de Francoise Proust est sans aucun doute Kant. Il y a, le concernant, un travail de presentation, d'edition, d'interpretation considerable. Francoise Proust excelle quand il s'agit, soit de mettre en evidence l'enjeu reel des textes les plus controverses (comme celui sur la question du mensonge), soit de deplacer les accentuations de telle sorte qu'un motif essentiel, mais jusqu'ici mal apercu, autorise …
Philosophical Considerations of the Very Singular Custom of Voting
Philosophical considerations of the very singular custom of voting: an analysis based on recent ballots in France Alain Badiou (bio) Translation by Steven Corcoran The moment is no doubt favourable for examining, being sure to guard an ethnological distance, the custom of the vote: the last sacred cow of our comfortable and agreeably nihilistic countries. With the United States showing the way, a half of the people — the majority of the young and…
Philosophical Considerations of Some Recent Facts
Philosophical Considerations of Some Recent Facts Alain Badiou Translated by Steven Corcoran (bio) A/ Method Faced with the destruction of New York’s Twin Towers by planes whose passengers, like the neo-pilots — those assassinating impostors — were transformed into incendiary projectiles, there was, everywhere, the evidence of a certain affect. For those who more or less secretly celebrated — an extremely numerous crowd, hundreds of millions of l…
Ethics
Considérations philosophiques sur quelques faits récents
Considérations philosophiques sur la très singulière coutume du vote, étayées sur l'analyse de récents scrutins en France
Seven Variations on the Century
Today we are forced to endure the dominance of an artificial individualism. In France, in 1995, millions of people demonstrated, rallied by the one slogan: ‘together!’ – what Paul Celan, in his poem Anabasis, named the ‘tent-word’. In Seattle and Prague, the rights of collectivities have been declared against the transnational institutions of global finance. In response to all of this, propaganda offers us the ‘selfevident’ rights of the individu…
Circonstances
Saint Paul
Fragments d'un journal public sur la guerre américaine contre l'Irak
Beyond formalisation an interview
Fragments of a public diary on the American war against Iraq
The Triumphant Restoration
Translated by Alberto Toscano
Further Selections from Theorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution
Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa
The Cultural Revolution
Translated by Bruno Bosteels
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