Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou
Western philosopher
Contemporary Philosophy
Alain Badiou in 2010.
Birth	17 January 1937 ( Rabat )
School / tradition	postmodern philosophy
Main interests	Aesthetics , mathematics , ontology , politics , theater , psychoanalysis
Notable ideas	Event, unsightly, metapolitical, model, unphilosophical
Influenced by	Plato , Spinoza , Lenin , Mao , Wittgenstein , Sartre , Lacan , Althusser , Deleuze
Influenced	Ray Brassier, Simon Critchley, Peter Hallward, Quentin Meillassoux , Slavoj iek
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Alain Badiou is a philosopher , French novelist and playwright, born in Rabat ( Morocco ) on 17 January 1937. Author of Being and Event, it is also known for his politically committed Maoist , his defense of communism and proletarian illegal aliens. He is the author of the pamphlet controversy What Sarkozy is it called?, which was a huge commercial success.

Summary 1 Biography 2 Philosophy 3 Political involvement 4 Fame 5 Reviews 6 Publications 6.1 Philosophy 6.2 Routine tests Policy 6.3 Routine tests critical 6.4 Novels 6.5 Supporting Theatre 7 Notes and references 8 See also 8.1 Bibliography 8.2 External Links

/ / Biography

His father, Raymond Badiou , Ecole Normale , a mathematics teacher in preparatory classes , resistant SFIO , was mayor of Toulouse from 1944 to 1958 before resigning and joining the Socialist Unity Party (PSU), to whose creation he participated (in 1958 ) before rallying his party at De Gaulle.

Alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure , cacique of the aggregation in philosophy in 1960 , Alain Badiou teaches first in high school (while working occasionally with the ENS), then at the Faculty of Letters of Reims (University College Literary ).

Activist in the Socialist Unity Party (PSU), then led by Michel Rocard , he participated with Emmanuel Terray , a focus group claiming to Marxism-Leninism and denouncing the "right opportunism" of various currents within the party , Maoist.

Since its inception, he joined the staff of the University Centre Experimental de Vincennes (year 1968 - 1969 ). It contributes to the development of the university (now Paris-VIII , moved to Vincennes in Saint-Denis) for thirty years. In Vincennes, Deleuze mocks his "Bolshevism", while Badiou is rather on the side of Lacan , accused by Deleuze and Lyotard Stalinism .

He became a professor at the Ecole Normale Suprieure in the Rue d'Ulm in 1999 and professor emeritus at that institution.

He was also program director at the College International de Philosophie.

Heavily influenced by Louis Althusser in his early work epistemological , it uses the math , the only way, he said, deploying the ontology.

Besides his activity as a philosopher, Badiou is novelist and playwright , which led him to work with directors such as Antoine Vitez or Christian Schiaretti. Meanwhile, it performs a work which the publisher has launched his friend Francis Wahl : it has long co-edited with Barbara Cassin 's series "philosophical" to Seuil. After leaving the threshold due to a conflict of editorial policy, Cassin and Badiou continue their philosophical collection, now entitled "Openings" in Fayard .

Among its other responsibilities, Badiou anime "Conferences of the parrot and participates as a life member at the Academy of Philosophy in Brazil.

His life and his work can be divided into two parts. However, Alain Badiou himself totally rejects this dichotomy .

Philosophy

On the one hand, his work in philosophy itself, the most important are Being and Event (1988), followed in 2006 Logic worlds. Being and Event 2. He supports the thesis that the ontology (theory of being) is identical to mathematics and, more specifically, set theory, and phenomenology (the study of degrees of appearance and the event) is indistinguishable from the logic that combines the theory of topoi. One of the major theories that emerge from these texts is that, in terms of being, nothing belongs to oneself (a consequence of the axiom of foundation ) and the event is only possible if precisely such a self-belonging. Consequently, the event is not. Also noteworthy, pell-mell, his concept of "democratic materialism" (there are only bodies and languages), opposite to that of "dialectical materialism" (there are only bodies and languages , if there are truths), his apprehension of being, and not as a multiple one, his theory of Lacanian subject, its operating forcing of Paul Cohen in an original conception of truth, the four anchors its theory: love, art, politics and science, ...

These two texts are developing a type of metaphysical system that is both traditional, its inclusiveness and synthetic, and again, through its integration of contemporary mathematical theories, such as Gdel's constructible, the "forcing" of Cohen, the internal logic of topoi etc.. It participates, perhaps reluctantly, to the revival of metaphysics, in which there is, moreover, in the world of analytical philosophy.

Demanding works, we will address the main concepts more easily "badiousiens" by reading the first book conditions, with a preface by Francois Wahl , or three short volumes of Abstract metapolitical, Concise Handbook of unsightly and Short Treatise ontology transitional published in 1998.

Political involvement

Activist politics, Badiou was a leader of the Maoist French (militant to UCFML ), like other famous ENS ( Benny Levy , Guy Lardreau , the linguist Jean-Claude Milner , the Lacanian Jacques-Alain and Gerard Miller which, themselves, argued the proletarian Left , etc..). It then denies almost nothing of this legacy. Alain Badiou considers that phenomena such as the Gulag and the Cultural Revolution should not drive on communism, to "throw the baby with the bath water" and that "Today, democracy is nothing other than a propaganda tool of capitalism .

In January 1979 he protested against the 'invasion of Cambodia by Vietnamese one hundred and twenty thousand "and will defend Pol Pot and his fellow Khmer Rouge .

Since 1985 he acts as the secretariat of the Political Organization </ ref> with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel. They defend the workers' cause illegal aliens homes .

This activism is part of its philosophy, indicated by several of his recent books: Ethics, the series of circumstances (I, II, III, IV and V) , which speak of terrorism or the French presidential election of 2002 , most recently The Age, and as a result of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, March 9, 2006.

Believing that philosophy must speak of his time, Alain Badiou, like most thinkers Continental of his generation, fought the idea that philosophical problems are eternal questions, asked by everyone in a similar manner. Finally, it is a critique of postmodern philosophy or of parliamentary democracy in the name of democracy restored to "its original meaning: the existence of peoples, conceived as power over themselves . He considers 2008 "the word" communism " .

Fame

Founder of the International Centre for the Study of contemporary French philosophy Alain Badiou is now a renowned figure in the life intellectual French, and his books The Century and What is Sarkozy's name? have experienced significant bestseller. Since the death of Jacques Derrida in 2004, is one of the most famous French philosophers abroad (notably in Latin America , the United States and Asia). ^Reviews

The stated commitment of Alain Badiou on the far left has raised several controversies , some of his critics calling it "leftist guru." The philosopher of Myriam Revault Allonnes and accused of having "hatred of democracy .

Jean-Claude Milner , following the publication of the trial of Alain Badiou Circumstances 3. Brought the word "Jew", has been accused of antisemitism . Alain Badiou, however, strongly rejected these accusations and has always publicly spoken out against the process of assimilating his criticism of the policy of the State of Israel to anti-Semitism, he has often publicly denounced .

But the most thorough criticism and most radical of Alain Badiou comes from Eric Marty in his book A Quarrel with Alain Badiou, philosopher, published in 2007 by Gallimard.Voir also his article "Alain Badiou, litters of the word" rat, About What is Sarkozy's name? in Brave New World, Summer 2008. However, Eric Marty denies ever taxed Alain Badiou anti-Semitism .

Critics, later used by Bernard-Henri Levy , Alain Badiou brought to react in an article entitled "Everything Is antisarkozyste a dog ? . Alain Badiou recalled in this regard than other authors before him, starting with Jean-Paul Sartre , did not hesitate to use the metaphor animal or even political invective. For Jean-Paul Sartre , while anti was "a dog", a phrase whose violent Badiou dissects the "philosophical sense" in the last chapter of Circumstances 4. What is Sarkozy's name?. Pierre Assouline has responded to the response of Badiou, in criticizing the philosopher to denounce "in the same breath puffing into an inaccessible humor tinged with derision, criticism of his book as the holder Sponsors invisible gun .

Adam Garuet in the journal Agone , said that the image of the "Rat Man" is a "specious reference to Freud, to explain that

. To explain the media coverage he met Adam Garuet believes that "Hermeticism and references treated work like a code for the initiated, in which all producers intellectuals (writers, journalists, managers, etc..) like to recognize "and believes that Alain Badiou is one about" so abstract that it does not constitute a real embarrassment for power "as when he denounced in the columns of the World" capitalist-parliamentary " . Adam Garuet wondered if this text was published "if the perpetrator was named as World of shareholders Lagardere and the daily itself" .

Publications

Philosophy

• Concept Model, Paris, ed. Maspero , 1969.
  • (PDF) English translation of The Concept The concept of Model and Model Forty Years Later, interview with Badiou in 2007
• (Ed. with Sylvain Lazarus ), The current situation on the front of philosophy, Paris, Cahiers Yenan n 4, Maspero, 1977.
  • (PDF) The current situation on the front of philosophy. Lecourt and cons Althusser, 1977
  • (PDF) The current situation on the front of philosophy. Cons Deleuze and Guattari, 1977
• Theory of the subject, Paris, ed. Seuil , 1982.
• Can you think of politics?, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1985.
• Being and Event, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1988.
• Manifesto for Philosophy, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1989.
• The Number and Numbers, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1990.
• Conditions, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1992.
• Ethics Essay on the conscience of evil, Paris, ed. Hatier , 1993 (reissue We, Caen, 2003).
• Deleuze, Paris, ed. Hachette , 1997.
• St. Paul. The foundation of universalism, Paris, PUF , 1997.
• Short metapolitical, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1998.
• Transient short treatise on ontology, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1998.
• Little manual unsightly, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1998.
• Le Sicle, Paris, ed. Seuil, 2005.
• Logical worlds. Being and Event, 2, Paris, ed. Seuil, 2006.
• The concept model. Introduction to a Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics, Paris, ed. Fayard , 2007 (reissue plus a long preface of the book published in 1969 and now found).
• Small portable pantheon, Paris, ed. La Fabrique, 2008. ( Excerpt Online )
• Second Manifesto for Philosophy, Paris, ed. Fayard, 2009.
• The unphilosophical Wittgenstein, Paris, ed. We, 2009 - ( ISBN 978-2-913549-05-0 ).
• In Praise of Love, Paris, Flammarion, 2009 - ( ISBN 9782081233010 )
• "The event Crisis "in Perspectives on the crisis. Reflections for understanding crisis ... and leave, collective work directed by Antoine Mercier Miguel Benasayag , Remi Brague , Dany-Robert Dufour , Alain Finkielkraut , Elisabeth de Fontenay ..., Paris, ed. Hermann , 2010
• Heidegger. Nazism, women, philosophy, with Barbara Cassin , Paris, ed. Fayard, 2010.
• There is no sex. Two lectures on "stun", Lacan, with Barbara Cassin , Paris, ed. Fayard, 2010.
• Philosophy and the event, interviews with Fabien Tarby , ed. Germination, 2010
• Five Lessons on the Case of Wagner, WE, 2010
• The finite and the infinite, Bayard, 2010
• The enigmatic relationship between politics and philosophy, ed. Germination, 2011

Testing Policy

• Theory of contradiction, Paris, ed. Maspero, 1975. (pdf) Theory of contradiction (1975)
• Of ideology (in collaboration with F. Balmes), Paris, ed. Maspero, 1976. (pdf) From ideology (1976)
• The rational core of the Hegelian dialectic (in collaboration with L. and J. Mossot Bellassen), ed. Maspero, 1977.
• From a disaster obscure Editions de l'Aube , 1991.
• Circumstances, 1. Kosovo, Sept. 11, Chirac / Le Pen, Line, and Manifesto, 2003.
• Circumstances, 2. Iraq, scarf, Germany / France, Lines & Manifesto, 2004.
• Circumstances, 3. Brought the word "Jew", Lines & Manifesto, 2005.
• Circumstances, 4. What is Sarkozy's name?, New Lines Publishing , 2007.
• Circumstances, 5. The Communist Hypothesis, New Line Publishing , 2009.
• Mao. Practice and contradiction, with Slavoj iek , Paris, ed. La Fabrique , 2008
• Democracy, in which state? With Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Bensaid , Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancire , Kristin Ross , and Slavoj iek, La Fabrique, 2009.
• The Idea of Communism (Alain Badiou and Slavoj iek , eds.), with Judith Balso , Bruno Bosteels , Susan Buck-Morss , Terry Eagleton , Peter Hallward , Michael Hardt , Ming Li , Jean-Luc Nancy , Toni Negri , Jacques Rancire , Alessandro Russo , Roberto Toscano , Gianni Vattimo , Wang Hui , Slavoj iek , New Line Publishing , 2010.
• The explanation, conversation with Aude Lancelin, with Alain Finkielkraut , New Line Publishing , 2010.
• Anti-Semitism everywhere. In France today, with Eric Hazan , La Fabrique , 2011 ( ISBN 9782358720182 ).

Critical Essays

• Rhapsody for Theatre, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1990.
• Beckett, the indefatigable desire, Paris, ed. Hachette , 1995.
• Cinema, Paris, Editions Nova, 2010.

Novels

• Almagest. Reverse path I, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1964.
• Portolans. Reverse path II, Paris, ed. Seuil, 1967.

The third volume of reverse path, Bestiaries announced under the title, was never published. The three types of securities that serve bookish (Almagest portolans, beasts) are listed in Exile of Saint-John Perse (cf. the epigraph of the unfinished trilogy).

• Quiet block here, ed. POL, 1997 - ( ISBN 2-86744-547-7 ).

Plays

• The Red Scarf (romanopra), Paris, ed. Maspero, 1979.
• Ahmed the subtle, ed. Actes Sud, 1984.
• Ahmed philosopher, followed by Ahmed is angry, ed. Actes Sud, 1995.
• The Pumpkins (comedy), ed. Actes Sud, 1996.

References

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