A Taste of Alain Badiou
Posted by John Steele on March 30, 2008
Wikipedia has a valuable short bio of Alain Badiou, and links to a great many resources.
Videos of Badiou
- (French) “Autour des Logiques des Mondes” at The American University of Paris
- Art as a Place for Politics (Video – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 11/16, 2006)
- Truth Procedure in Politics (Video – Abreu Gallery, New York, 11/18, 2006)
- Truth Procedure in Art (Video – Tilton Gallery, New York, 11/17, 2006)
- Jacques Lacan’s Seminar On Anxiety (Video – The Drawing Center, New York, 03/07, 2006)
Dozens of videos of Badiou lectures are available on youtube.
Websites devoted to Badiou
- Alain Badiou at Lacan Dot Com
- Alain Badiou Bibliography
- Collège International de Philosophie
- Badiou at the European Graduate School
- Cosmos and History
Articles by Badiou
In English
- The Contemporary Figure of the Soldier in Politics and Poetry, UCLA
- Destruction, Negation, Subtraction Art Center College of Design – Pasadena
- The Uses of the Word “Jew”
- The Adventure of French Philosophy
- Behind the Scarfed Law, There is Fear (On the French headscarf ban)
- Bodies, Languages Truths
- The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution? (PDF)
- Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic
- The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World
- Destruction, Negation, Subtraction – on Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Eight Theses on the Universal
- An Essential Philosophical Thesis: “It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries” (PDF)
- The Event in Deleuze (PDF)
- Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art
- The Formulas of L’Etourdit
- The Factory as Event Site
- Further Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution (PDF)
- Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy (from Metapolitics)
- Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
- A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject (PDF)
- Number and Numbers
- On the European Constitution
- On the Truth-Process
- One Divides into Two (On Lenin)
- Philosophical Considerations of the Very Singular Custom of Voting
- Philosophy as Creative Repetition
- Philosophy and Politics
- The Political as a Truth Procedure (from Metapolitics)
- Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics (PDF)
- The Scene of Two (English translation from De l’amour)
- Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution (PDF)
- The Subject of Art (Deitch Projects, New York, April 1, 2005)
- The Triumphant Restoration (PDF)
- What Happens (On Beckett; PDF)
- What is to be Thought? What is to be Done? (On the 2002 French elections; written by Badiou, Sylvain Lazarus and Natasha Michel)
- A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject
- The Event in Deleuze
- What is a Philosophical Institution?
- ‘What is the Left?’ An excerpt from ‘The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration’
- What is Love? (PDF)
- The Communist Hypothesis
In French
- L’aveu du philosophe
- Considérations philosophiques sur des événements récents (On the September 11, 2001 attacks; PDF)
- De la demande de faire des lois et de la façon d’y répondre
- De la dialectique négative dans sa connexion à un certain bilan de Wagner (part one; part two) (Two lectures on Theodor Adorno and Richard Wagner)
- De l’idéologie (PDF)
- L’Homme aux Rats (On the 2007 French presidential election)
- Huit thèses sur l’universel
- L’humiliation ordinaire (On the 2005 civil unrest in France; translation)
- Notes sur Le Dernier des hommes (On the movie The Last Laugh by Murnau)
- Panorama de la philosophie française contemporaine
- La subversion infinitésimale (PDF)
- Théorie de la contradiction (PDF)
- Un, multiple, multiplicité(s) (On Gilles Deleuze)
In other languages
- (Spanish) en “Grupo Acontecimiento”
- (Spanish) en “antroposmoderno”
- (Spanish) en “Turbulencias”
- (Spanish) La Etica (Translation of Badiou’s book on ethics)
- (Spanish) Nietzsche, filosofía y antifilosofía (On Friedrich Nietzsche)
- (Italian) Il cinema come falso movimento
- (Italian) Si può parlare di un film?
Interviews
- On Evil (Badiou interviewed by Christoph Cox and Molly Whalen)
- Matters of Appearance: An Interview with Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Lauren Sedofsky)
- AGR interviews Professor Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Shane Perlowin)
- Being by Numbers (part one; part two; part three; part four; part five; Badiou interviewed by Lauren Sedofsky)
- Beyond Formalisation (Badiou interviewed by Peter Hallward and Bruno Bosteels; questions in English, answers in French)
- A Conversation with Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Mario Goldenberg)
- (Spanish) “Las democracias están en guerra contra los pobres” (Badiou interviewed by Héctor Pavón; PDF)
- (Spanish) Entrevista a Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Julia Goldenberg)
- (French) L’être, l’événement, la militance (Badiou interviewed by Nicole-Édith Thévenin)
- (Spanish) “Las ideas existen y tienen poder” (Badiou interviewed by Pedro B. Rey)
- (French) “L’intellectuel de gauche va disparaître, tant mieux” (Badiou interviewed by Nicolas Weill)
- “Universal Truths & the Question of Religion” (Badiou interviewed by Adam S. Miller)
- Carceraglio: Interview (Badiou interviewed by Diana George and Nic Veroli)
- (French) “Alain Badiou: Le XXIe siècle n’a pas commencé” (Badiou interviewed by Elie During)
- New Horizons in Mathematics as Philosophical Condition: an Interview with Alain Badiou (Badiou interviewed by Tzuchien Tho; PDF)
- Interview with Alain Badiou from InDigest Magazine (Interviewed by Genoa Mungin)
Political movements & organisations influenced by Badiou’s works
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
- Congolese Rally for Democracy
- L’Organisation politique
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Commentry and Interpretation
Arguably, the most important commentators on Badiou in English are considered to be
- Peter Hallward, see for instance his Badiou: A Subject to Truth (2003) and Think Again: Alain Badiou & the Future of Philosophy (2004) and
- Bruno Bosteels, see his Badiou and Politics, forthcoming Duke UP, and Badiou o el recomienzo del materialismo dialectico, Palinodia, 2007.
Other commentary:
- Fractal Ontology (English) featuring original translations of Alain Badiou’s work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman
- On Badiou and Logiques des mondes by Slavoj Zizek
Works
[edit] Philosophy
- Le concept de modèle (1969 , 2007)
- Théorie du sujet (1982)
- Peut-on penser la politique? (1985)
- L’Être et l’Événement (1988)
- Manifeste pour la philosophie (1989)
- Le nombre et les nombres (1990)
- Conditions (1992)
- L’Éthique (1993, 2005)
- Deleuze (1997)
- Saint Paul. La fondation de l’universalisme (1997, 2002)
- Abrégé de métapolitique (1998)
- Court traité d’ontologie provisoire (1998)
- Petit manuel d’inesthétique (1998)
- D’un désastre obscur (1998)
- Le siècle (2005)
- Logiques des mondes. L’être et l’événement, 2. (2006)
[edit] Critical essays
[edit] Literature and drama
- Almagestes (1964)
- Portulans (1967)
- L’Écharpe rouge (1979)
- Ahmed le subtil (1994)
- Ahmed Philosophe, followed by Ahmed se fâche (1995)
- Les Citrouilles, a comedy (1996)
- Calme bloc ici-bas (1997)
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