Throughout all of his writings, there is a staunch commitment to emancipatory politics and radical change through fidelity to what he calls the “event†and its “truthâ€. Badiou’s famous, or infamous, philosophy of emancipation is faithful to the communist truth, the universal idea of a collective life, but he also claims that “philosophy is always a biography of the philosopherâ€.
Introducing Alain Badiou is an elegantly written and crisply illustrated guide to an essential contemporary thinker.