About the Author

Alain Badiou holds the Chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Manifesto for Philosophy (1999), Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (2000) and Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2001).

Reviews

"Badiou introduces the reader to the notion that philosophy stands somewhere beyond the commonplace ... [and] illustrates the way in which during [St. Paul's] time Paul decided that for God particularities such as nationality or sex are unimportant and therefore everybody is (compared to God) just a human being." - Peter Takac, Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences