March 14, 2006

Badiou Buzz Bootleg

For folks who have missed it, an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education (mentioned by Ken in the Zizek editorial thread)

"Alain Badiou Creates a Buzz With Views of Philosophy's Relevance to Other Disciplines"
by Richard Byrne

Is Alain Badiou the next great French import into American academe? A hundred or so people squeezed into a small open space on the second floor of Labyrinth Books, near Columbia University, on Monday night to find out at a public discussion between Mr. Badiou, a professor of philosophy at Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, with intellectual roots in Marxism and in the upheavals of 1968 in France and Simon Critchle, a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and the University of Essex.  

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