Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris. As one of France’s most famous philosophers he emphasizes that in order to have a hold on reality, philosophy must encompass revolt, logic, universality, and risk. He demonstrates the ongoing pertinence of theory and political practice inspired by Marxism and attacks established schools of thought such as hermeneutics and (post-)structuralism. Convinced that philosophical writing of the past fifty years has been too concerned with language, he introduces mathematics into the picture. While L’être et l’événement from 1988 was translated into English only in 2005 (Being and Event), a recent rise of interest in his work in the English-speaking world had Logics of the World: Being and Event (2009) appear a mere three years after the French original.

Workshop with Professor Badiou

Prof. Alain Badiou
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Moderator

Registration is required for the Distinguished Lectures Series Workshop featuring the invited speaker (for contact details, please see below). After a short introduction round of the participants, the workshop is structured in three parts. Part 1 allows participants to ask questions related to the speaker’s lecture. Part 2 serves discussing a text by the invited speaker that participants receive as preparatory reading to the workshop. Part 3 offers the opportunity to bring up topics of discussion related to one’s own research or interest.

Date: October 6th, 2015
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room A-119

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch

Registration Workshop:                       

dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch