Alain Badiou

Plato's Republic
A Dialogue in 16 Chapters

Alain Badiou

Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark...

Pocket Pantheon
Figures of Postwar Philosophy

Alain Badiou

In this pint-sized collection of essays, Alain Badiou takes the reader through a keen yet poignant journey through the pantheon of late twentieth-century philosophy. Through the course of the collection – each essay homage to a figure that helped to...

Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Wo Es War)

Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn by governments of the West. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and ultimately fail to provide a framework...