Table of Contents

Translating The Century

Dedication

1. Search for a Method

2. The Beast

3. The Unreconciled

4. A New World. Yes, but When?

5. The Passion for the Real and the Montage of Semblance

6. One Divides into Two

7. Sex in Crisis

8. Anabasis

9. Seven Variations

10. Cruelties

11. Avant-gardes

12. The Infinite

13. The Joint Disappearances of Man and God

Select Bibliography

Commentary

Remarks on the Translation

About the Author

Alain Badiou, Professor of Philosophy, l'Ecole normale superieure

Reviews

"The lesson of the book is: remain faithful to the twentieth century. The Century is not 'the best' book of the last decade, it is simply the book of the last decade! Read it with the proper tremor, aware that you are reading a classic, that a figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"
Slavoj Zizek

"Badiou's sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent."