Alain Badiou

Tags: Philosopher.

Alain Badiou (French: [alɛ̃ badju] About this sound (listen) ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). 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.

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birth date

1937-01-17

birth place

French protectorate in Morocco, Rabat

era

Contemporary philosophy

influenced

Peter Hallward, Justin Clemens, Oliver Feltham, Ray Brassier, Slavoj Žižek, Simon Critchley, Quentin Meillassoux, Sylvain Lazarus, Bruno Bosteels, Jason Barker, Alberto Toscano, Nina_Power, Frank_Ruda

influenced by

Fernando Pessoa, Georg Cantor, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Paul Cohen (mathematician), Plato, Samuel Beckett, Stéphane Mallarmé, Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Sylvain Lazarus

LCCN Id

n/82/125750

main interest

Ontology, Set theory, Metapolitics, Marxism

philosophicalSchool

Marxism