Badiou, Alain

Badiou, Alain. 1969. Le concept de modele Introduction a une epistemologie materialiste des mathematiques. Paris Francois Maspero. 

Badiou, Alain, and Frangois Balmes. 1976. De Videologie. Paris Frangois Mas-pero. 

Badiou, Alain, Joel Bellassen, and Louis Mossot. 1978. Le noyau rationnel de la dia-Uctique hegelienne. Paris Frangois Maspero. 

Badiou, Alain, and Simon Critchley. 2007. Ours Is Not a Terrible Situation. Philosophy Today 51, no. 3 (Fall) 357-65. 

Badiou, Alain. 2. Zizek, Slavoj. 3. Political science—Philosophy. I. Tide. II. Series Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy. 

In so far as these past failures herald their revolutionary redemption to come, they prognosticate the future revolutionary miracle which will retroactively redeem them. Furthermore, in so far as Alain Badiou s name for the miracle is Event . .. we can deploy from Benjamin s Theses a kind of critique avant la lettre of Badiou an Event does not occur out of nowhere not only does it take place within what Badiou calls a site evenementielle, it is even prognosticated by a series of past failed Events. ... 

Alain Badiou goes wrong when he insists on a strict frontier between the Political and the Social (the domain of State, of history)—he concedes too much namely, that society exists. Against this concession, we should endorse the thesis, articulated by Laclau and Mouffe, that society doesn t exist —that society is not a positive field, since the gap of the Political is inscribed into its very foundations (Marx s name for the political which traverses the entire social body is class struggle ). Badiou concedes too much when he accepts that there is the order of Being, and then goes on to how an Event is possible. Just as society doesn t exist, we should formulate the basic materialist thesis that the world doesn t exist (or, in Badiou s terms, that there is no order of Being). ... 

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