About the Author
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including
Theory of the Subject,
Being and Event,
Manifesto for Philosophy, and
Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include
The Meaning of Sarkozy,
Ethics,
Metapolitics,
Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis,
Five Lessons on Wagner, and
Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.
From the Hardcover edition.