Badiou: A Subject to Truth

by Peter Hallward

Book Overview

The most complete and accessible guide in any language to this key contemporary thinker

Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France today--a thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and Cantor as by Mao and Mallarm , Badiou's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816634610
• ISBN13: 9780816634613
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"