Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou | |
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topos theory, history of philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, metapolitics, metaphysics/ontology, psychoanalysis | |
Notable ideas | Event, ontology of the multiple, ontology is mathematics, the One is not, count-as-one, metapolitics |
Alain Badiou (
Biography
Badiou is the son of the mathematician
The
In the 1980s, as both Althusserian
He took up his current position at the ENS in 1999. He is also associated with a number of other institutions, such as the
In the last decade, an increasing number of Badiou's works have been translated into English, such as Ethics, Deleuze, Manifesto for Philosophy, Metapolitics, and Being and Event. Short pieces by Badiou have likewise appeared in American and English periodicals, such as
In 2014–15, Badiou had the role of Honorary President at
Key concepts
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Badiou makes repeated use of several concepts throughout his philosophy, which he discerns from close readings of the philosophical literature from the classical period. His own method cannot be fully understood if it is not situated within the tradition of French academic philosophy. Badiou's work engages a detailed decrypting of texts, in line with philosophers such as
One of the aims of his thought is to show that his categories of truth are useful for any type of philosophical critique. Therefore, he uses them to interrogate art and history as well as ontology and scientific discovery. Johannes Thumfart argues that Badiou's philosophy can be regarded as a contemporary reinterpretation of Platonism.[15]
Conditions
According to Badiou, philosophy is suspended from four conditions (art, love, politics, and science), each of them fully independent "truth procedures." (For Badiou's notion of truth procedures, see below.) Badiou consistently maintains throughout his work (but most systematically in Manifesto for Philosophy) that philosophy must avoid the temptation to suture itself ('sew itself', that is, to hand over its entire intellectual effort) to any of these independent truth procedures. When philosophy does suture itself to one of its conditions (and Badiou argues that the history of philosophy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is primarily a history of sutures), what results is a philosophical "disaster." Consequently, philosophy is, according to Badiou, a thinking of the compossibility of the several truth procedures, whether this is undertaken through the investigation of the intersections between distinct truth procedures (the intersection of art and love in the novel, for instance), or whether this is undertaken through the more traditionally philosophical work of addressing categories like truth or the subject (concepts that are, as concepts, external to the individual truth procedures, though they are functionally operative in the truth procedures themselves). For Badiou, when philosophy addresses the four truth procedures in a genuinely philosophical manner, rather than through a suturing abandonment of philosophy as such, it speaks of them with a theoretical terminology that marks its philosophical character: "inaesthetics" rather than art; metapolitics rather than politics; ontology rather than science; etc.
Truth, for Badiou, is a specifically philosophical category. While philosophy's several conditions are, on their own terms, "truth procedures" (i.e., they produce truths as they are pursued), it is only philosophy that can speak of the several truth procedures as truth procedures. (The lover, for instance, does not think of her love as a question of truth, but simply and rightly as a question of love. Only the philosopher sees in the true lover's love the unfolding of a truth.) Badiou has a very rigorous notion of truth, one that is strongly against the grain of much of contemporary European thought. Badiou at once embraces the traditional modernist notion that truths are genuinely invariant (always and everywhere the case, eternal and unchanging) and the incisively postmodernist notion that truths are constructed through processes. Badiou's theory of truth, exposited throughout his work, accomplishes this strange mixture by uncoupling invariance from self-evidence (such that invariance does not imply self-evidence), as well as by uncoupling constructedness from relativity (such that constructedness does not lead to relativism).
The idea, here, is that a truth's invariance makes it genuinely indiscernible: because a truth is everywhere and always the case, it passes unnoticed unless there is a rupture in the laws of being and appearance, during which the truth in question becomes, but only for a passing moment, discernible. Such a rupture is what Badiou calls an event, according to a theory originally worked out in
Inaesthetic
In Handbook of Inaesthetics Badiou both draws on the original Greek meaning and the later Kantian concept of "aesthesis" as "material perception" and coins the phrase "inaesthetic" to refer to a concept of artistic creation that denies "the reflection/object relation" yet, at the same time, in reaction against the idea of mimesis, or poetic reflection of "nature", he affirms that art is "immanent" and "singular". Art is immanent in the sense that its truth is given in its immediacy in a given work of art, and singular in that its truth is found in art and art alone – hence reviving the ancient materialist concept of "aesthesis". His view of the link between philosophy and art is tied into the motif of pedagogy, which he claims functions so as to "arrange the forms of knowledge in a way that some truth may come to pierce a hole in them". He develops these ideas with examples from the prose of Samuel Beckett and the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and Fernando Pessoa (who he argues has developed a body of work that philosophy is currently incapable of incorporating), among others.
Being and Event
The major propositions of Badiou's philosophy all find their basis in Being and Event, in which he continues his attempt (which he began in Théorie du sujet) to reconcile a notion of the subject with ontology, and in particular
As is implied in the title of the book, two elements mark the thesis of Being and Event: the place of ontology, or 'the science of being qua being' (being in itself), and the place of the event – which is seen as a rupture in being – through which the subject finds realization and reconciliation with truth. This situation of being and the rupture which characterizes the event are thought in terms of set theory, and specifically Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice. In short, the event is a truth caused by a hidden "part" or set appearing within existence; this part escapes language and known existence, and thus being itself lacks the terms and resources to fully process the event.
Mathematics as ontology
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For Badiou the problem which the
Badiou's use of set theory in this manner is not just illustrative or
Several critics have questioned Badiou's use of mathematics. Mathematician Alan Sokal and physicist Jean Bricmont write that Badiou proposes, with seemingly "utter seriousness," a blending of psychoanalysis, politics and set theory that they contend is preposterous.[19] Similarly, philosopher Roger Scruton has questioned Badiou's grasp of the foundation of mathematics, writing in 2012:
- There is no evidence that I can find in Being and Event that the author really understands what he is talking about when he invokes (as he constantly does) Georg Cantor's theory of transfinite cardinals, the axioms of set theory, Gödel's incompleteness proof or Paul Cohen's proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis. When these things appear in Badiou's texts it is always allusively, with fragments of symbolism detached from the context that endows them with sense, and often with free variables and bound variables colliding randomly. No proof is clearly stated or examined, and the jargon of set theory is waved like a magician's wand, to give authority to bursts of all but unintelligible metaphysics.[20]
An example of a critique from a mathematician's point of view is the essay 'Badiou's Number: A Critique of Mathematics as Ontology' by Ricardo L. Nirenberg and David Nirenberg,[21] which takes issue in particular with Badiou's matheme of the Event in Being and Event, which has already been alluded to in respect of the 'axiom of foundation' above. Nirenberg and Nirenberg write:
- Rather than being defined in terms of objects previously defined, ex is here defined in terms of itself; you must already have it in order to define it. Set theorists call this a not-well-founded set. This kind of set never appears in mathematics – not least because it produces an unmathematical mise-en-abîme: if we replace ex inside the bracket by its expression as a bracket, we can go on doing this forever – and so can hardly be called "a matheme."'
The event and the subject
Badiou again turns here to mathematics and set theory – Badiou's language of ontology – to study the possibility of an indiscernible element existing extrinsically to the situation of ontology. He employs the strategy of the mathematician
Badiou's ultimate ethical maxim is therefore one of: 'decide upon the undecidable'. It is to name the indiscernible, the generic set, and thus name the event that re-casts ontology in a new light. He identifies four domains in which a subject (who, it is important to note, becomes a subject through this process) can potentially witness an event: love, science, politics and art. By enacting fidelity to the event within these four domains one performs a 'generic procedure', which in its undecidability is necessarily experimental, and one potentially recasts the situation in which being takes place. Through this maintenance of fidelity, truth has the potentiality to emerge.
In line with his concept of the event, Badiou maintains, politics is not about politicians, but activism based on the present situation and the evental [
- When Galileo announced the principle of inertia, he was still separated from the truth of the new physics by all the chance encounters that are named in subjects such as Descartes or Newton. How could he, with the names he fabricated and displaced (because they were at hand – 'movement', 'equal proportion', etc.), have supposed the veracity of his principle for the situation to-come that was the establishment of modern science; that is, the supplementation of his situation with the indiscernible and unfinishable part that one has to name 'rational physics'?
While Badiou is keen to reject an equivalence between politics and philosophy, he correlates nonetheless his political activism and skepticism toward the parliamentary-democratic process with his philosophy, based around singular, situated truths, and potential revolutions.
L'Organisation Politique
Alain Badiou is a founding member (along with Natacha Michel and Sylvain Lazarus) of the militant French political organisation L'Organisation Politique, which was active from 1985 until it disbanded in 2007.[22] It called itself a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). In addition to numerous writings and interventions, L'Organisation Politique highlighted the importance of developing political prescriptions concerning undocumented migrants (les sans papiers), stressing that they must be conceived primarily as workers and not immigrants.[23]
Public controversies
Anti-Semitism accusation and response
In 2005, a fierce controversy in Parisian intellectual life erupted after the publication of Badiou's Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif' ("The Uses of the Word 'Jew'").
Badiou forcefully rebutted this charge, declaring that his accusers often conflate a nation-state with religious preference and will label as anti-Semitic anyone who objects to this tendency: "It is wholly intolerable to be accused of anti-Semitism by anyone for the sole reason that, from the fact of the
Badiou characterizes the state of Israel as "neither more nor less impure than all states", but objects to "its exclusive identitarian claim to be a Jewish state, and the way it draws incessant privileges from this claim, especially when it comes to trampling underfoot what serves us as international law." For example, he continues, "The Islamic states are certainly no more progressive as models than the various versions of the 'Arab nation' were. Everyone agrees, it seems, on the point that the Taliban do not embody the path of modernity for Afghanistan.”[26] A modern democracy, he writes, must count all its residents as citizens, and "there is no acceptable reason to exempt the state of Israel from that rule. The claim is sometimes made that this state is the only 'democratic' state in the region. But the fact that this state presents itself as a Jewish state is directly contradictory."[26]
Badiou is optimistic that ongoing political problems can be resolved by de-emphasizing the communitarian religious dimension: "The signifier 'Palestinian' or 'Arab' should not be glorified any more than is permitted for the signifier 'Jew.' As a result, the legitimate solution to the Middle East conflict is not the dreadful institution of two barbed-wire states. The solution is the creation of a secular and democratic Palestine...which would show that it is perfectly possible to create a place in these lands where, from a political point of view and regardless of the apolitical continuity of customs, there is 'neither Arab nor Jew.' This will undoubtedly demand a regional Mandela."[26]
Sarkozy pamphlet
Alain Badiou gained notoriety in 2007 with his pamphlet The Meaning of
As Rafael Bahr pointed out at the time (in 2009), Badiou despised Sarkozy and barely could write his name. Instead, Badiou usually called Sarkozy "the Rat Man" throughout The Meaning of Sarkozy. Mark Fisher was impressed with Badiou’s efforts: “The book treats Sarkozy as an emblem of a particular kind of reactionary politics, and identifies him with an attempt to kill off that which is officially already dead: the emancipatory project that, defiantly, Badiou still calls communism. Badiou claims that Sarkozy’s rise is the return of a kind of ‘Pétainist’ mass subjectivity first instigated by the Vichy regime’s collaboration with the Nazis in World War II; the enemy that is being acquiesced to now, though, is of course capital.”[30]
Works
Philosophy
- Le Concept de modèle (1969, 2007)
- Théorie du sujet (1982)
- Peut-on penser la politique? (1985)
- L'Être et l'Événement (1988)
- Manifeste pour la philosophie (1989)
- Le Nombre et les Nombres (1990)
- D'un désastre obscur (1991)
- Conditions (1992)
- L'Éthique (1993)
- Deleuze (1997)
- Saint Paul. La Fondation de l'universalisme (1997, 2002)
- Abrégé de métapolitique (1998)
- Court traité d'ontologie transitoire (1998)
- Petit manuel d'inesthétique (1998)
- Le Siècle (2005)
- Logiques des mondes. L'être et l'événement, 2 (2006)
- Petit panthéon portatif (2008)
- Second manifeste pour la philosophie (2009)
- L'Antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein (2009)
- Éloge de l'Amour (2009)
- Heidegger. Le nazisme, les femmes, la philosophie co-authored with Barbara Cassin (2010)
- Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel co-authored with Barbara Cassin (2010)
- La Philosophie et l'Événement interviews with Fabien Tarby (ed.) (2010)
- Cinq leçons sur le cas Wagner (2010)
- Le Fini et l'Infini (2010)
- La Relation énigmatique entre politique et philosophie (2011)
- La République de Platon (2012)
- L'Aventure de la philosophie française (2012)
- Jacques Lacan, passé présent: Dialogue (2012)
- De la fin. Conversations with Giovanbattista Tusa (2017)
- L'Immanence des vérités (2018)
- Sometimes, We Are Eternal with Kenneth Reinhard, Jana Ndiaye Berankova, Nick Nesbitt (Suture Press 2019)
Critical essays
- L'autonomie du processus esthétique (1966)
- Rhapsodie pour le théâtre (1990)
- Beckett, l'increvable désir (1995)
- Cinéma (2010)
Literature and drama
- Almagestes (1964)
- Portulans (1967)
- L'Écharpe rouge (1979)
- Ahmed le subtil (1994)
- Ahmed philosophe, followed by Ahmed se fâche (1995)
- Les Citrouilles, a comedy (1996)
- Calme bloc ici-bas (1997)
Political essays
- Théorie de la contradiction (1975)
- De l'idéologie with F. Balmès (1976)
- Le Noyau rationnel de la dialectique hégelienne with L. Mossot and J. Bellassen (1977)
- Circonstances 1: Kosovo, 11 septembre, Chirac/Le Pen (2003)
- Circonstances 2: Irak, foulard, Allemagne/France (2004)
- Circonstances 3: Portées du mot "juif" (2005)
- Circonstances 4: De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom ? (2007)
- Circonstances 5: L'Hypothèse communiste (2009)
- Circonstances 6: Le Réveil de l'Histoire (2011)
- Circonstances 7: Sarkozy : pire que prévu, les autres : prévoir le pire (2012)
- Mao. De la pratique et de la contradiction with Slavoj Žižek (2008)
- Démocratie, dans quel état ? with Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross and Slavoj Žižek (2009)
- L'Idée du communisme vol. 1 (London Conference, 2009) (Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek eds.), with and Slavoj Žižek (2010)
- L'Explication, conversation avec Aude Lancelin with Alain Finkielkraut (2010)
- L'Antisémitisme partout. Aujourd'hui en France with Eric Hazan (2011)
- L'Idée du communisme, vol. 2 (Berlin Conference, 2010), (Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek eds.) with and Slavoj Žižek (2011)
Pamphlets and serial publications
- Contribution au problème de la construction d'un parti marxiste-léniniste de type nouveau, with Jancovici, Menetrey, and Terray (Maspero 1970)
- Jean Paul Sartre (Éditions Potemkine 1980)
- Le Perroquet. Quinzomadaire d'opinion (1981–1990)
- La Distance politique (1990–?)
- Notre mal vient de plus loin (2016)
English translations
Books
- Manifesto for Philosophy, transl. by Norman Madarasz; (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999): ISBN 978-0-7914-4219-7(hardcover)
- Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, transl. by Louise Burchill; (Minnesota University Press, 1999): ISBN 978-0-8166-3139-1(library binding)
- Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, transl. by Peter Hallward; (New York: Verso, 2000): ISBN 978-1-85984-297-3
- On Beckett, transl. and ed. by ISBN 978-1-903083-26-0(hardcover)
- Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy, transl. and ed. by ISBN 978-0-8264-6724-9(hardcover)
- Metapolitics, transl. by ISBN 978-1-84467-035-2(hardcover)
- Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism; transl. by ISBN 978-0-8047-4470-6(hardcover)
- Handbook of Inaesthetics, transl. by Alberto Toscano; (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004): ISBN 978-0-8047-4408-9(hardcover)
- Theoretical Writings, transl. by Ray Brassier; (New York: Continuum, 2004)[31]
- Briefings on Existence: A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology, transl. by Norman Madarasz; (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)
- Being and Event, transl. by Oliver Feltham; (New York: Continuum, 2005)
- Polemics, transl. by Steve Corcoran; (New York: Verso, 2007)
- The Century, transl. by Alberto Toscano; (New York: Polity Press, 2007)
- The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics, transl. by Zachery Luke Fraser & Tzuchien Tho; (Melbourne: re.press, 2007). Open Access[32]
- Number and Numbers (New York: Polity Press, 2008): ISBN 978-0-7456-3878-2(hardcover)
- The Meaning of Sarkozy (New York: Verso, 2008): ISBN 978-1-84467-629-3(paperback)
- Conditions, transl. by Steve Corcoran; (New York: Continuum, 2009): ISBN 978-0-8264-9827-4(hardcover)
- Logics of Worlds: Being and Event, Volume 2, transl. by Alberto Toscano; (New York: Continuum, 2009): ISBN 978-0-8264-9470-2(hardcover)
- Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy, transl. by ISBN 978-1-84467-357-5(hardcover)
- Theory of the Subject, transl. by ISBN 978-0-8264-9673-7(hardcover)
- Philosophy in the Present, (with ISBN 978-0-7456-4097-6(paperback)
- The Communist Hypothesis, transl. by ISBN 978-1-84467-600-2(hardcover)
- Five Lessons on Wagner, transl. by Susan Spitzer with an 'Afterword' by Slavoj Žižek; (New York: Verso, 2010): ISBN 978-1-84467-481-7(paperback)
- Second Manifesto for Philosophy, transl. by Louise Burchill (New York: Polity Press, 2011)
- Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy, transl. by Bruno Bosteels; (New York: Verso, 2011)
- The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, transl. by Tzuchien Tho; (Melbourne: re.press, 2011)
- The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings, transl. by Gregory Elliott; (New York: Verso, 2012): ISBN 978-1-84467-879-2
- In Praise of Love, (with Nicolas Truong); transl. by Peter Bush; (London: Serpent's Tail, 2012)
- Philosophy for Militants, transl. by Bruno Bosteels; (New York: Verso, 2012)
- The Adventure of French Philosophy, transl. by Bruno Bosteels; (New York: Verso, 2012)
- Plato's Republic : A Dialogue in 16 Chapters, transl. by Susan Spitzer; (New York : Columbia University Press, 2013)
- The Incident at Antioch/L'Incident d'Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes, transl. by Susan Spitzer; (New York : Columbia University Press, 2013)
- Badiou and the Philosophers : Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy, transl. and ed. by Tzuchien Tho and Giuseppe Bianco; (New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
- Philosophy and the Event, (with Fabian Tarby); transl. by Louise Burchill; (Malden, MA: Polity, 2013)
- Reflections on Anti-Semitism, (with Eric Hazan); transl. by David Fernbach; (London: Verso, 2013)
- Rhapsody for the Theatre, transl. and ed. by Bruno Bosteels; (London: Verso, 2013)
- Cinema, transl. by Susan Spitzer; (Malden, MA: Polity, 2013)
- Mathematics of the Transcendental: Onto-logy and being-there, transl. by A.J. Bartlett and Alex Ling; (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
- Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else, transl. by Joseph Litvak; (New York : Columbia University Press, 2014)
- Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, (with Elisabeth Roudinesco); transl. by Jason E. Smith; (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)
- Controversies: Politics and Philosophy in our Time, (with Jean-Claude Milner); transl. by ?; (London: Polity, 2014)
- Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin, (with Alain Finkielkraut); transl. by Susan Spitzer; (London: Polity, 2014)
- The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose, transl. by Bruno Bosteels; (New York: Verso, 2014)[33]
- The end, (with ISBN 978-1509536276
- The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III, transl. by Susan Spitzer and Kenneth Reinhard; (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) ISBN 978-1350115309
Journals
- Journal of Badiou Studies
- "The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?", transl. by Bruno Bosteels; positions: asia critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter 2005; (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005): ISSN 1067-9847
- "Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution", transl. by Alberto Toscano with the assistance of Lorenzo Chiesa and Nina Power; positions: asia critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter 2005; (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005): ISSN 1067-9847
- "Further Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution", transl. by Lorenzo Chiesa; positions: asia critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter 2005; (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005): ISSN 1067-9847
- "The Triumphant Restoration", transl. by Alberto Toscano; positions: asia critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter 2005; (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005): ISSN 1067-9847
- "An Essential Philosophical Thesis: 'It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries'", transl. by Alberto Toscano; positions: asia critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter 2005; (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005): ISSN 1067-9847
- What is a philosophical Institution? or: Address, Transmission, Inscription. Archived 28 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 2, No 1-2 (2006)
- Les Reponses Ecrites D'Alain Badiou Interviewed by Ata Hoodashtian, for Le journal Philosophie Philosophie, Université Paris VIII.
DVD
- Badiou, A Film in association with the Global Center for Advanced Studies (2018), Directed by Gorav Kalyan, Rohan Kalyan Gorav Kalyan.
- Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance: Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley in Conversation, (Event Date: Thursday, 15 November 2007); Location: Slought Foundation, Conversations in Theory Series | Organized by Aaron Levy | Studio: Microcinema in collaboration with Slought Foundation | DVD Release Date: 26 August 2008
Lectures
- "Interview with Alain Badiou" BBC HARDtalk. March 2009.
- Creative Thinking. Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine, 17 January 2009.
- "Is the Word Communism forever Doomed?". Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 6 November 2008.
- "Theatre et Philosophie." with Martin Puchner & Bruno Bosteels. La Maison Française, New York University, New York, 7 November 2008.
- "Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance"[permanent dead link], with Simon Critchley. Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, the Departments of Romance Languages, History, and English, and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. 15 November 2007.
- "Homage to Jacques Derrida"[permanent dead link], University of California, Irvine, 1 March 2006 (RealPlayer).
- "Ours is not a terrible situation." with Simon Critchley. Labyrinth Books, New York, 6 March 2006.
- "Politics, Democracy and Philosophy: An Obscure Knot", Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at University of Washington 23 February 2006.
- "Panorama de la Filosofía Francesa Contemporánea" Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires, 2004
- "Finkielkraut-Badiou: Le-Face-à-Vace" The Nouvel Obs (Transcript in French)[34]
- "Faut-il réinventer l'amour?" – Ce Soir. French television. En direct, France 3 (French)
See also
Notes
- ^ "Alain Badiou: "Mao thinks in an almost infinite way"". Versobooks.com. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Sean Bowden, Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, p. 63.
- ^ "Radical thinkers: Alain Badiou's Ethics"
- ISBN 978-0745688367.
- ^ Tzuchien Tho, Giuseppe Bianco, Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy, A&C Black, 2013, pp. xvii.
- ^ Tzuchien Tho, Giuseppe Bianco, Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy, A&C Black, 2013, pp. xviii–xix.
- ^ François Regnault Homepage at Cahiers pour l'Analyse Archived 18 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "La chronobiographie". alain-badiou (in French). Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d Badiou Homepage at Concept and Form: The Cahiers pour l'Analyse and Contemporary French Thought Archived 17 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-1-84467-600-2.
- ^ Badiou, Alain. "Jacques Lacan." Pocket Pantheon. Trans. David Macey. London: Verso, 2009
- ^ Badiou, Alain. "Louis Althusser." Pocket Pantheon. Trans. David Macey. London: Verso, 2009
- ^ "Quentin Meillassoux". CIEFPC. Archived from the original on 8 September 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ "Alain Badiou. Member Page". The Global Center for Advanced Studies. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Thumfart, Johannes. "Learning from Las Vegas: Badiou's Platonism Today". The Symptom 9. Lacan.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ See here Feltham and Clamens's introduction in Badiou's book Infinite Thought, Continuum (2004)
- ^ See Badiou's book Infinite Thought, Continuum (2004)
- ^ See here Badiou's comments in the introduction to the English version of Being and Event, Continuum (2005)
- ISBN 9780312204075, p. 180
- ^ Scruton, Roger (31 August 2012). "A Nothing Would do As Well". Times Literary Supplement.
- ^ Nirenberg, Ricardo L.; David Nirenberg. "Badiou's Number: A Critique of Mathematics as Ontology" (PDF). Critical Inquiry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ See the organisation's website at https://web.archive.org/web/20071028083920/http://www.orgapoli.net/
- ^ Robinson, Andrew (30 March 2015). "An A to Z of Theory. Alain Badiou: Political Action and the Organisation Politique". Cease Fire Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ "Alain Badiou – Uses of the Word "Jew"". Lacan.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ On that subject, see articles against Badiou by:
- Roger-Pol Droit ("Le Monde des livres", 25 November 2005) and Frédéric Nef ("Le Monde des livres", 23 December 2005), and in defense of Badiou by: Daniel Bensaid ("Le Monde des Livres", 26 January 2006);
- Claude Lanzmann, Jean-Claude Milner and Eric Marty ("Les Temps modernes", Nov.-December 2005/January 2006), and Meir Waintrater "L'Arche" February 2006: "Alain Badiou et les Juifs: Une violence insoutenable", and the answers by Alain Badiou and Cécile Winter followed by rejoinders by Claude Lanzmann and Eric Marty ("Les Temps modernes", March–June 2006). See also Badiou's response to Eric Marty
- ^ a b c d Alain Badiou, Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif', Paris: Leo Schéer, 2005 (The Uses of the Word 'Jew'), translated by Steve Corcoran. Accessed 22 November 2019.
- ^ Eric Conan, "Badiou, la star de la philo est-il un salaud?", in Marianne no. 671, 27 Feb 2010, p. 18.
- ^ a b "A denunciation of the 'Rat Man' | Nicolas Sarkozy | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
- ^ "The Meaning of Sarkozy | Politics books | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
- ^ Fisher, Mark (4 April 2009). "The Meaning Of Sarkozy". Frieze (122) – via www.frieze.com.
- ^ Includes:
- Mathematics and Philosophy: The Grand Style and the Little Style, (unpublished)
- Philosophy and Mathematics: Infinity and the End of Romanticism, (from Conditions, Paris, Seuil, 1992).
- The Question of Being Today, (from Briefings on Existence, )
- Platonism and Mathematical Ontology, (from Briefings on Existence)
- The Being of Number, (from Briefings on Existence)
- One, Multiple, Multiplicities, (from Multitudes, 1, 2000)
- Spinoza's Closed Ontology, (from Briefings on Existence)
- The Event as Trans-Being, (revised and expanded version of an essay of the same title from Briefings on Existence)
- On Subtraction, (from Conditions, Paris, Seuil, 1992)
- Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable, (from Conditions, Paris, Seuil, 1992)
- Kant's Subtractive Ontology, (from Briefings on Existence)
- Eight Theses on the Universal, (from Jelica Sumic (ed.) Universal, Singulier, Subjet, Paris, Kimé, 2000)
- Politics as a Truth Procedure, (from Metapolitics)
- Being and Appearance, (from Briefings on Existence)
- Notes Toward Thinking Appearance, (unpublished)
- The Transcendental, (from a draft manuscript [now published] of Logiques des mondes, Paris, Seuil)
- Hegel and the Whole, (from a draft manuscript [now published] of Logiques des mondes, Paris, Seuil)
- Language, Thought, Poetry, (unpublished)
- ^ Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "The Age of the Poets | Alain Badiou | Review |".
- ^ The Nouvel Obs invited the philosophers Alain Finkielkraut and Alain Badiou, members of opposite political camps, to talk about national identity. According to Aude Lancelin who moderated the discussion, "it came to an ideological confrontation of rare violence". [1]
Further reading
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Secondary literature on Badiou's work
in English (books)
- Jason Barker, Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction, London, Pluto Press, 2002.
- Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
- Peter Hallward (ed.), Think Again: Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, London, Continuum, 2004.
- Andrew William Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of intermittency, Oxford, Oxford University press, 2006.
- Paul Ashton (ed.), A. J. Bartlett (ed.), Justin Clemens (ed.): The Praxis of Alain Badiou; (Melbourne: re.press, 2006).
- Adam Miller, Badiou, Marion, and St. Paul: Immanent Grace, London, Continuum, 2008.
- Bruno Bosteels, Badiou and Politics, Durham, Duke University Press, 2011.
- Oliver Feltham, Alain Badiou: Live Theory, London, Continuum, 2008.
- Burhanuddin Baki, Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Sam Gillespie, The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics, (Melbourne, Australia: re.press, 2008) (details on re.press website Archived 17 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine) (Open Access)
- Chris Henry, The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
- Adrian Johnston, Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2009.
- Gabriel Riera (ed.), Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions, Albany: New York, SUNY Press, 2005.
- Frank Ruda, For Badiou: Idealism Without Idealism, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Christopher Norris, Badiou's Being and Event: A Reader's Guide, London, Continuum, 2009.
- A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens (eds.), Badiou: Key Concepts, London, Acumen, 2010.
- Alex Ling, Badiou and Cinema, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- Ed Pluth, Badiou: A Philosophy of the New, Malden, Polity, 2010.
- A. J. Bartlett, Badiou and Plato: An education by truths, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- P. M. Livingston, The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism, New York, Routledge, 2011.
- Steven Corcoran (ed.): The Badiou Dictionary, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2015, ISBN 978-0-7486-4096-6
- Am Johal: Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocence, New York, Atropos Press, 2015.
In English (journals, essays and articles)
- Cantor, Lacan, Mao, Becket, meme combat: The philosophy of Alain Badiou essay by Jean-Jacques Lecercle. Radical Philosophy 093. January / February 1999
- Je te Mathème: Badiou's De-Psychologisation of Love, essay by Carlos Gómez Camarena. Annual Review of Critical Psychology 8 (2010).
- Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject: Part 1. The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism? by Bruno Bosteels
- Society and Space Theme Issue: Being and Spatialization vol. 27. Issue 5. 2009, interview and articles by M. Constantinou, N. Madarasz, J. Flowers MacCannell(See: "Environment and Planning D: Society and Space contents vol 29". Envplan.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.)
- Fatal Repetition: Badiou and the Age of the Poets, with Appendix, A Psychoanalysis of Alain Badiou, by James Luchte, Istiraki (Turkey), 5 May 2014.
In French (books)
- Charles Ramond (éd), Penser le multiple, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2002
- Fabien Tarby, La Philosophie d'Alain Badiou, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2005
- Fabien Tarby, Matérialismes d'aujourd'hui : de Deleuze à Badiou, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2005
- Eric Marty, Une Querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe, Paris, Editions Gallimard, coll. L'Infini, 2007
- Bruno Besana et Oliver Feltham (éd), Écrits autour de la pensée d'Alain Badiou, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2007.
In Basque (books and articles)
- Antton Azkargorta (1996): "Hitzaurrea" in Alain Badiou, Etika, Bilbo, Besatari ISBN 84-921104-1-4
- Imanol Galfarsoro (2011): "Alain Badiou. Filosofia etiko-politikoa I", hAUSnART, 0: 124–129
- Imanol Galfarsoro (2012): "Alain Badiou. Filosofia etiko-politikoa II", hAUSnART, 1: 108–114
- Imanol Galfarsoro (2012): "Alain Badiou eta hipotesi komunistaren birdefinizioak", hAUSnART, 2: 82–99
- Imanol Galfarsoro (2012): "(Post)Marxismoa, kultura eta eragiletasuna: Ibilbide historiko labur bat" in Alaitz Aizpuru(koord.), Euskal Herriko pentsamenduaren gida, Bilbo, UEU. ISBN 978-84-8438-435-9
- Xabier Insausti & Irati Oliden (2012): Konpromisorik gabeko filosofia. Alain Badiou, Donostia, ISBN 978-84-95234-44-5
- Alain Badiou on the Lapiko Kritikoa basque website.
In Spanish (books and articles)
- Carlos Gómez Camarena and Angelina Uzín Olleros (eds.), Badiou fuera de sus límites, Buenos Aires, Imago Mundi, 2010. ISBN 978-950-793-102-4
- Angelina Uzín Olleros (2008). Introducción al pensamiento de Alain Badiou. Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi. ISBN 978-950-793-076-8
- Je te mathème: Badiou y la despsicologización del amor (por Carlos Gómez Camarena- Revista Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología)
- Badiou, la ciencia, el matema Archived 22 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (por Carlos Gómez Camarena- Revista Reflexiones Marginales)
- Alfonso Galindo Hervás, Pensamiento impolítico contemporáneo. Ontología (y) política en Agamben, Badiou, Esposito y Nancy, Sequitur, Madrid, 2015.
External links
- Alain Badiou Bibliography at Lacan Dot Com
- Alain Badiou Archive at MidEastDilemma.com
- Plato, Badiou and I: an Experiment in Writerly Happiness Cordite Poetry Review