Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics.
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
One of the most important philosophers writing today.
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.