An excerpt from The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics in Polemics, Verso, 2006. To read the full essay in pdf click here. To start with, let's note that before the Commune there had ...

A look at, and a critique of, both Blaumachen and Alain Badiou's theories on riots. This excerpt from Alain Badiou's important essay on the Paris Commune in Polemics argues that radical politics ...

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right politician, received around 20 per cent of the presidential vote [AP] New York, NY – In a powerful new essay for Le Monde [Fr], Alain Badiou, arguably the greatest ...

GIVEN that Alain Badiou said in 2009 that “from Plato onwards, communism is the only political Idea worthy of a philosopher,” it is not surprising that this latest collection of essays and lectures ...

In “The True Life,” Alain Badiou addresses a new generation facing the fall of liberalism, the rise of fascism, and the end of gender. French philosopher Alain Badiou is, by his own admission, a ...

Alain Badiou on love, the revolution, and the contradictions that could unmake the modern liberal state.(Jean-Francois Gornet;Flickr/CC) Alain Badiou is one of the best-known French philosophers alive ...

Alain Badiou, whose work is, as far as I can tell, not widely known in the English-speaking world – where Peter Hallward has done a lot to compensate for this lack – is a contemporary thinker who has ...

Two things are new in this much-anticipated translation of Badiou: the language and the preface. Both are instructive. Translator Oliver Feltham stayed ""as close as possible to Badiou's syntax"" but ...