Alain Badiou is one of the living French philosophers the most widely-read and discussed throughout the world. A lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), he is also the author of numerous books such as Théorie du sujet (Seuil, 1982), Beckett, l'increvable désir (Hachette, 1995), Le Siècle (Seuil, 2005) and De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom ? (Lignes, 2007).

Bibliography: Second manifeste pour la philosophie (Fayard )

Alain Badiou will participate in:
« A philosopher in the grip of literature : Alain Badiou » , interview, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.