An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas

In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics.

A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.

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Alain Badiou

In Praise of Love

Badiou by Badiou (Memory in the Present)

Being and Event (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Metapolitics (Radical Thinkers)

Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy