ALAIN BADIOU and SIMON CRITCHLEY in conversation MONDAY, MARCH 6 AT 6PM
Please join us as we celebrate the recent publication in English of Badiou's Being and Event (Continuum, HC, $29.95). A book signing reception will follow the discussion. "A significant book, one which one cannot fail to find staggering." *Jean Francois-Lyotard "A book of exceptional scope and rare courage of thought that tackles the whole of philosophy, from Parmenides to Heidegger." * Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou's significance for contemporary philosophy.
ALAIN BADIOU teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Infinite Thought, and the recently translated Metapolitics.
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York and at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including Very Little*Almost Nothing and On Humour.
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