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Democracy in What State?
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 19.99"Is it meaningful, as far as you are concerned, to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy and its critical weaknesses. They also reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben... more...
Plato's Republic
Wiley 2013; US$ 39.95Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another... more...
Theory of the Subject
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Theory of the Subject , first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying many of the foundations for his magnum opus , Being and Event . Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major contribution to Marxism, as well... more...
Conditions
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 29.95Alain Badiou is without doubt the most important and influential thinker working in European philosophy today. Conditions is the first major collection of essays written after Being and Event , his extraordinary magnum opus . Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', the book goes on to propose a new definition... more...
Logics of Worlds
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event . Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event , and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths... more...
Being and Event
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 80.00Being and Event is the centrepiece of Alain Badiou's oeuvre; it is the work that grounds his reputation as one of France 's most original philosophers. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy.... more...
In Praise Of Love
Profile 2012; US$ 14.38A new century, new threats to love . . . Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - without the key ingredient of chance - is in danger of withering on the vine. In In Praise of Love, Alain... more...
In Praise of Love
New Press, The 2012; US$ 14.95In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen only as a variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud?s famous line ?love needs reinventing,? In Praise of Love is the celebrated French philosopher?s passionate treatise in... more...
Rhapsody For The Theatre
Verso Books 2013; US$ 24.95For Alain Badiou, theatre?unlike cinema?is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the... more...
The Concept of Model
re.press 2007; US$ 25.00In The Concept of Model Alain Badiou establishes a new logical 'concept of model'. Translated for the first time into English, the work is accompanied by an exclusive interview with Badiou in which he elaborates on the connections between his early and most recent work?for which the concept of model remains seminal. more...









