The Adventure of French Philosophy

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the ldquo;French momentrdquo; in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusserrsquo;s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of ldquo;potato fascismrdquo; in Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattarirsquo;s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-Franois Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an...