Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought.
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- Rabat
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- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
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- 📖 Alenka Zupančič📖 André Hirt📖 Patrick Vauday📖 Gabriel Rockhill📖 Vladimir Safatle
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1937
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