Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

Arguably Europe’s most influential living philosopher, Badiou engages here with art, poetry, and history in daring ways. Supplementing arguments made in his magnum opus, he challenges readers to follow him on an arduous journey into a complex “theory of the worlds” and a materialist dialectic foregrounding truths and events, subjects and points … It is a reconstruction, a far-reaching, incisive, compelling way of reinterpreting the world. Badiou’s fervent plea, in the conclusion, to “live for an Idea” should be heard. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Translator's NotePrefaceTechnical NoteBook I: Formal Theory of the Subject (Meta-Physics)Book II: Great Logic 1: The Transcendental Book III: Great Logic 2: The Object Book IV. Great Logic 3: The Relation Book V: The Four Forms of Change Book VI: Theories of Points Book VII: What is a Body? Conclusion: What Is It to Live?Notes, Commentaries and DigressionsStatements, Dictionaries, Bibliography, Iconography and Index

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

Arguably Europe’s most influential living philosopher, Badiou engages here with art, poetry, and history in daring ways. Supplementing arguments made in his magnum opus, he challenges readers to follow him on an arduous journey into a complex “theory of the worlds” and a materialist dialectic foregrounding truths and events, subjects and points … It is a reconstruction, a far-reaching, incisive, compelling way of reinterpreting the world. Badiou’s fervent plea, in the conclusion, to “live for an Idea” should be heard. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Translator's NotePrefaceTechnical NoteBook I: Formal Theory of the Subject (Meta-Physics)Book II: Great Logic 1: The Transcendental Book III: Great Logic 2: The Object Book IV. Great Logic 3: The Relation Book V: The Four Forms of Change Book VI: Theories of Points Book VII: What is a Body? Conclusion: What Is It to Live?Notes, Commentaries and DigressionsStatements, Dictionaries, Bibliography, Iconography and Index