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Alain Badiou

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Does philosophy have a role in society?

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 14 October 202014 October 2020

Philosophers have a different take on current affairs and pose their own problems. They point out the distance between truth and power. Then it is up to us to choose

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Alain Badiou, the “event”, and political subjectivity

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 21 December 2011

Alain Badiou, whose work is, as far as I can tell, not widely known in the English-speaking world – where Peter Hallward has done a lot to compensate for this lack – is a contemporary thinker who has done much to refine the philosophical understanding of the human subject. As Hallward observes (in the Translator’s […]

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