Les possibles matins de la politique

by Alain Badiou

« Cet ensemble de textes tente, sans chercher à être systématique, de rendre compte de la conjoncture idéologique et politique actuelle, tant à échelle du monde qu’a échelle de la France. Il ne s’agit nullement de “raconter” les diverses péripéties factuelles qui font la une des journaux. Mais plutôt, en nous armant de quelques notions utiles, créées pour l’essentiel au cours des trois derniers siècles, de comprendre ce qui se passe. » A. B.

162 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 2021

About the author

Alain Badiou, Ph.D., born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School EGS. Alain Badiou was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation.

Reviews

[Arhanyoz Akubar · Rating 5 out of 5]

badiou's empirical ideas about the movements all round the world, defends the notion that these protests can not always be interpret favourably.. fact that protests taking place in anarchic atmosphere all around the world were routed because they lack of affirmative, counterproposal policy.. everytime i think about that fact i audibly gasp