Alain Badiou

Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities.

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics an

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between phi

Jongeren hebben een nieuwe wereld voor zich. Nu aan oude tradities en hiërarchieën steeds minder belang wordt gehecht, lijken de mogelijkheden legio.

Niemand ontkomt eraan: vroeg of laat krijgen we met ziekte te maken. Het treft onszelf of mensen om ons heen, is kortstondig of chronisch, fysiek of p

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

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between phi

Dit is een boek over ziek worden. Over de weg kwijtraken en alle hoop verliezen. Over het gevoel dat we onszelf en iedereen teleurgesteld hebben. Maar

In Statusangst onderzoekt Alain de Botton een verschijnsel waarmee iedereen in de westerse wereld op de een of andere manier te maken krijgt. Een gebr

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capit

Au mois de mars 1977, le président congolais Marien Ngouabi est brutalement assassiné. La violence politique éclate jusque dans l'intimité du petit vi

Wie uit eten gaat bij de familie Caron waant zich hartje Amsterdam in Parijs. Werkelijk alles is er zoals je verlangt van een moderne, kwalitatief hoo

One of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceOver the last six years, Greece has provided th

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous

This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing

For Alain Badiou, theatre - unlike cinema - is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all

An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a uniqu

Alain Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary

Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent