
, formerly chair of Philosophy
at the École Normale Supérieure
(ENS). Along with Giorgio Agamben
and Slavoj Žižek
, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern
strand of continental philosophy
. Badiou seeks to recover the concepts of being
, truth
and the subject
in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity
. Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the communist tradition.
Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand
and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure
(1957–1961).
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
Without mathematics, we are blind.
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.