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alain badiou , 2012 École normale supérieure university of paris viii slavoj ray brassier , sylvain lazarus , quentin meillassoux , alberto Žižek toscano , oliver feltham , justin clemens , nina power , , jason barker peter hallward , simon critchley , contemporary philosophy rabat , french morocco post-marxism continental philosophy plato lacan , althusser , paul cohen , sartre , deleuze , , lyotard , hegel , mallarmé , beckett , fernando marx pessoa , sylvain lazarus , jean hyppolite , cantor , mao zedong , 225px set theory , mathematics , metapolitics , ontology Événement '' -lrb- ontology of the multiple -rrb- , ontology is -lrb- mathematics , '' l'un n'est pas '' -lrb- `` the event one is not '' -rrb- , count-as-one -rrb- , '' ontologie du multiple alain badiou 17 january 1937 alain badiou-2 . jpg alain badiou
 french philosophy
alain badiou

alain badiou -lrb- ; born 17 january 1937 -rrb- is a french philosopher , formerly chair of philosophy at the École normale supérieure -lrb- ens -rrb- and founder of the faculty of philosophy of the université de paris viii with gilles deleuze , michel foucault and jean-françois lyotard .
badiou has written about the concepts of being , truth and the subject in a way that , he claims , is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity .
politically , badiou is committed to the far left , and to the communist tradition .
