Alain Badiou: key concepts

Alain Badiou is one of the worlds most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou: Key Concepts presents an overview of and introduction to the full range of Badious thinking. Essays focus on the foundations of Badious thought, his key concepts truth, being, ontology, the subject, and conditions and on his engagement with a range of thinkers central to his philosophy, including Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Heidegger and Deleuze.