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June 21, 2018

Iain MacKenzie on Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou

Today, we are honored to have a guest post by Iain MacKenzie, author of the forthcoming book Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou. MacKenzie is a co-director of the Centre for Critical Thought and a senior lecturer in politics at...

May 9, 2014

Badiou and Roudinesco on Lacan's Legacy

“[T]he contemporary world is haunted by uncertainty, disorientation, and the specter of permanent crisis. And Lacan is a great thinker of disorder.” – Alain Badiou This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain...

May 8, 2014

More from Badiou and Roudinesco

This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. Today, we are taking a look back at previous works by both Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. We have excerpts from...

May 7, 2014

"I Am Counting on the Tourbillon": On the Late Lacan, by Jason E. Smith

“If Lacan’s rightly celebrated Seminar VII from 1959-60 elaborates a properly psychoanalytic ethics through the intransigent figure of Antigone and her refusal to give way on her desire, Badiou and Roudinesco emphasize instead a certain ethical and tragic dimension to...

May 6, 2014

One Master, Two Encounters, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco

Read an excerpt from “One Master, Two Encounters,” the first chapter of JACQUES LACAN, PAST AND PRESENT, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco.

March 29, 2013

Introductions in the Insurrections Series

Read excerpts from titles in our critically acclaimed Insurrections series!

March 1, 2013

The Life and Works of Alain Badiou

Check out our Pinterest board honoring the career of Alain Badiou.

March 1, 2013

Alain Badiou translates "What is a Philosopher?" from Plato's Republic

Read an excerpt from Alain Badiou’s creative new translation of Plato’s Republic.

February 28, 2013

Ward Blanton: Paula Versus the New Philosophers, or, Incident in Beijing

Read an essay by Professor Ward Blanton on the importance of Badiou’s The Incident at Antioch to the study of St. Paul.

February 27, 2013

Susan Spitzer: Translating Alain Badiou's The Incident at Antioch and Plato's Republic

Susan Spitzer discusses the experience of translating two very different works by Alain Badiou.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard: Badiou's Sublime Translation of the Republic

Read Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s “hypertranslation” of Plato’s Republic.