Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472572738)

Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, through Heidegger to Lacan and Deleuze.

Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, Infinite Thought is a vivid demonstration of that range. Here Badiou introduces his own thought on the full gamut of intellectual concerns, from politics, psychoanalysis and art to truth, desire and the definition of philosophy itself. As well as Badiou's reflections on the fall of communism and the 'War on Terror', the book also includes an interview with the author.

Author: Alain Badiou
ISBN-10: 1472572734
ISBN-13: 9781472572738
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d

About the Author

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Being and Event (also available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series).