BadiouThe most complete and accessible guide in any language to this key contemporary thinker Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France todaya thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and Cantor as by Mao and Mallarm, Badious work renews, in the most