The Philosopher
Alain Badiou
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- French
- Schools:
- Continental philosophy, Maoism, Marxism, Modern Platonism
- Branchs:
- Philosophy of mathematics, Metaphysics, Ontology, Psychoanalysis, Metapolitics, Set theory, Category theory, Topos theory, History of philosophy
- Period:
- Contemporary philosophy
The synopsis
The works
L'Être et l'Événement
Manifesto for Philosophy
Ethics
Deleuze
Metapolitics
Saint Paul
The Century
Logiques des mondes
The Meaning of Sarkozy
The Communist Hypothesis
Ahmed le subtil
The quotes
Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.