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A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's work

About the Author

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.

Reviews

A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
*Slavoj Zizek (in praise of Alain Badiou)*

An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
*New Statesman (in praise of Alain Badiou)*

Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.
*Times Higher Education Supplement (in praise of Alain Badiou)*