L'Humanité: Alain Badiou, une vie de fidélité au communisme
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Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou 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's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project con…
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Born 17 January 1937 · Q311005
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2023· 2 entries
Le Soir: Alain Badiou : « Nous allons vers une guerre mondiale »
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2021· 1 entry
Marianne: Alain Badiou : "Entre la mémoire et l’invention, pour Aragon, il y a le poème"
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2019· 1 entry
Le Soir: Alain Badiou au «Soir»: «Le mouvement pour le climat doit se politiser»
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2018· 2 entries
RTBF: Alain Badiou : "L'amour, c'est le communisme minimal"
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openDemocracy: Alain Badiou on the Egyptian revolution: questions of the movement and its vision [video]
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2017· 1 entry
Libération: Alain Badiou, no limit
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2016· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Alain Badiou : « La situation du monde exige la reconstruction d’une alternative véritable »
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2014· 3 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Alain Badiou: a French philosopher still in search of the revolution
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Slate: Alain Badiou, misère de la philosophie nouvelle (et joies de la gauche radicale)
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scmp.com: Book review: Confrontation, by Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut
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2012· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: "La République de Platon", d'Alain Badiou : Platon, le remake
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2008· 1 entry
As "probably one of [Maoism's] few noteworthy representatives
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2007· 1 entry
With his pamphlet The Meaning of Sarkozy (De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom
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2005· 2 entries
A full seventeen years after its French publication
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A controversy in Parisian intellectual life erupted after the publication of Badiou's Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif' ("The Uses of the Word 'Jew'")
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2002· 1 entry
Badiou was a co-founder of the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine, alongside Yves Duroux and his former student Quentin Meillassoux
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1985· 1 entry
With some comrades from the Maoist UCFml – this organization disbanded in 2007
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1967· 1 entry
Joined a study group organized by Louis Althusser, became increasingly influenced by Jacques Lacan and became a member of the editorial board of Cahiers pour l'Analyse
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1960· 1 entry
Wrote his diplôme d'études supérieures thesis (roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Spinoza under Georges Canguilhem (the topic was "Structures of Demonstration in the First Two Books of Spinoza's Ethics", "Structur
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-01-17.
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