Les Temps modernes
In 2005, a fierce controversy in Parisian intellectual life erupted after the publication of Badiou's "Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif"' ("The Uses of the Word 'Jew'"). This book generated a strong response, and the wrangling became a "cause célèbre" with articles going back and forth in the French newspaper "Le Monde" and in the cultural journal "Les Temps modernes". Linguist and Lacanian philosopher Jean-Claude Milner, a past president of Collège international de philosophie, accused Badiou of anti-Semitism.