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Alain Badiou: Ontology, Ethics and Religion
An Introductory Workshop

March 6, 2007, 6pm

Moore Centre Seminar Room

This workshop introduces the work of Alain Badiou.  Badiou is currently one of the most original and important of living French philosophers as well as one of the most prominent voices in contemporary radical political theory.  Since only recently the gradual translation of his work has become available in the Anglophone world, Badiou, incorporating insights from mathematics, science, art, literature and philosophy, is now starting to exert a strong and exciting influence on contemporary thought.  Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Badiou studied at l'École Normale Supérieure between 1956 and 1961.  Marked by an implacable fidelity to the events of May 1968 Badiou has since combined his philosophical work with a staunch political activism.    Philosophically, politically and theoretically Badiou directly positions himself in antagonism to the most dominant trends of contemporary thought including linguistic and analytic philosophy, postmodernism, culture studies, post-structuralism, pragmatism, hermeneutics and phenomenology.  Badiou, instead, stringently asserts the radicality of metaphysics and its most enduring themes such as universality, politics, truth, art and love.  The task of thought for Badiou is the militant seizure of these truths.

All welcome!

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