Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.

Using many key philosophical concepts based on the work of Alain Badiou, this book outlines the relationship between an event and the emergence of a "truth", which serves as a…

The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou’s entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and…

Who hasn’t had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called…

Badiou’s philosophy of the event stands at the centre of his influential theory of revolutionary politics. It has received both much acclaim for the way it rigorously and systematically unfolds…

Applies Badiou’s philosophy to films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The Matrix. This title employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious…

A series of brilliant political reflections demolishing established positions on the Iraq War to the Cultural Revolution.

Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism…