“Distinguished by his unique combination of philosophical stringency and political engagement, Alain Badiou is not afraid to question the very fundamentals of our liberal-democratic consensus.” Slavoj Žižek
“This elegant and indispensable translation of a crucial text from Alain Badiou's 1980s political writing redirects the entire English-language discussion of Badiou's communism. The real break is not between Badiou's communism and Marxism but between Badiou's militant, political Marxism and the Marxist analytics of political economy. Badiou gives us a Marxist subjectivity released from and by the defeats of the twentieth century and armed with new capacities to think and move.” Jodi Dean
About the Author & Editor
Alain Badiou is René Descartes Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School and the author of numerous books, including Being and Event; Theory of the Subject; and Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil.
Bruno Bosteels (ed.) is Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.