Alain Badiou - Videos

Cours d'Alain Badiou à l'ENS - L'immanence des vérités (16/01/2013). Contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou discusses logic, anthropology, philosophy, Karl Marx, politics, negativity, negative dialectics, affirmative dialectics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, capitalism, the future, negation, affirmation, event, subject, Saint Paul, Paris 1968, subjectivity, democracy, and Jacques Rancière Ranciere. European Graduate School EGS Switzerland. 2013

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the relationship between a singular change, a subject and the existence of truths. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the philosophical concepts of being, world, object and thing, an Event as the mediation of a truth and being, the question of the subject at the level of affect and ecology, the reversal of the relationship between an Event and a subject, and the death of God focusing on the concept of singular universality, anxiety, the Real, the human animal, patience for absolute change, infinite subjectivity, the consequences of an Event, terrorism, the relationship between history and nature, mysticism, and choice. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about change in a world with respect to being and an Event. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relation between identity and difference, the logic of being and the logic of worlds, the opposition between being and appearing, existence as the immanent possibility of being, the difference between a thing and an object and the relationship between an Event and truth in relationship to Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx focusing on infinity, pure multiplicity, the point, extensionality, minimum and maximum difference, order-relations, void, the empty set, subjectivity, place, revolution and the proletariat. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answering students' questions concerning the philosophical concept of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses technical questions concerning mathematics, politics and the philosophy of life in relationship to Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Galileo Galilei, Martin Heidegger and Plato focusing on time, space, representation, the relationship between being and change, nature, the distinction between a set and number, the identity of being and thinking, the One and the multiple, void, subjectivity, Plato's cave allegory, truth, exteriority and interiority, the power of the State, the Event, and heroism.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the philosophical concept of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between repetition and tradition, the mathematical concept of generic sets, the relationship between the idea of truth and the generic, the impossibility of the transmission of the thought of change and the structure of desire in relationship to Plato, Saint Paul, Kurt Gödel, PJ Cohen and Georg Cantor focusing on difference, identity, love, life, exceptionality, positive and negative forms of change, generic audiences and the relationship between desire and law.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the question of change in the political field. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between State and law, the dialectics of possibility and impossibility, the relationship between political action and artistic creation, relativity within the empirical experience of change, the distinction between realization and creation, the Event and the consequences of change focusing on repetition, violence, repression, irrational numbers, the forcing of possibility, the structure of worlds, truth, revolutions and negation. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012

Alain Badiou speaking about the deminished role of elections, a spectacle for idiots, oligarchies presented as democracies, and the lack of great popular democratic movements: in Avant Premières by Elizabeth Tchoungui, France 2, March 1, 2012

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the finite and infinite in an ontology of multiplicity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses set theory, the formulas of existence and obligation, the reactionary vision in politics, and omega as a limit point and event in relationship to Plato, Georg Cantor, René Descartes, Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida focusing on truth, God, the One, affirmation, void, extensionality, globality, locality, difference, succession, repetition, new worlds, memory and life. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the operation of succession and naming in set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses nothingness and infinity as two forms of being, the materiality of names, creative repetition and the matheme of the infinite in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Jacques Lacan, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, negation, affirmation, the indefinite, the encore, creative repetition, subjectivity, weak and strong infinity, omega, Faust, jouissance and woman. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the dialectical conception of the relationship between the finite and infinite in romanticism and modernity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the dialectical fusion of the One and the infinite, Christianity, God, the figure of Christ, truth, miracle and transcendental affirmation in relationship to René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Plato, Blaise Pascal and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on being, existence, truth, subjectivity, abstraction, miracle, possibility, the common measure and generating the new. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about a positive form of the dialectical relation between the finite and infinite. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the distinction between finite and infinite possibilities, immanent infinity as life potency, different types of infinity, and the complete separation between the infinite and the One in relationship to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexandre Koyré, Auguste Comte, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, immortality, physics, capitalism, humanity, equality, God, Christianity, affirmation and virtuality. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou and Joe Litvak in the scene "Terror" from Badiou's play, Ahmed the Philosopher (Ahmed Philosophe). "Badiou's Theater" conference organized by the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, with Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Joe Litvak, Lee Edelman, Ward Blanton, Martin Treml, and Ken Reinhard. Hebbels am Ufer 1, Berlin, July 2, 1011

Philosophers Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut discussing with editor and writer Eric Hazan a rise or resurgence of antisemitism in France. Moderator: Frederick Tadeï,

Ce soir ou jamais - France 3, March 24, 2011 (French)

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, answers students' questions. The questions concern: immanent exception, event, the ethical implications of an event, fidelity, Jacques Lacan, analytic discourse and truth procedure, generic set, place, force, dialectics, the 'we', the avant garde, and the possibility and requirements of a different future. European Graduate School EGS 2010

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the existence of truth. Badiou argues that truths, and universality, do in fact exist in our world, and do so without external divine guarantee. Badiou here argues for a completely new resolution to the universality-particularity problem, namely, through the concept of immanent exception, and a new conceptualization of truth and subject. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lectures on mysticism and philosophy. Badiou argues that the difference between mysticism and philosophy is not in terms of their beginning and end, rather the difference is in the process: mysticism is an immediate resolution of nothingness and the infinite, while philosophy is a systematic movement between the same perimeters. European Graduate School EGS 2010

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lectures on the nature and essence of philosophy, discussing the question 'what is philosophy'. He begins with three concrete problems, namely: philosophy and language, philosophy and duty and dialectical versus analytic philosophy. In Part II, of 'What is Philosophy', Badiou focuses on the paradoxical relationship between philosophy and time, specifically discussing the problem of transmission, the non-reducibility of philosophy to the present, philosophy as symptom, and the relationship between past, present and future. European Graduate School EGS

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, discusses the duty and work of philosophy and philosophers, from the point of view of time. In this lecture, Alain Badiou describes the work to be done by philosophy and philosophers with respect to the past, present and future. In the present, of philosophy is required both a negative action of resisting its place, and a positive action of knowing its conditions; with respect to the past philosophy must provide a new interpretation of the history of philosophy and its conditions; while, with respect to the future, philosophy has the duty of proposing new conceptions of truth. European Graduate School EGS 2010

Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the paradoxical relationship between philosophy and time. Badiou argues that philosophy is both a proposition of justice, and a conviction of the existence of eternal truths. Philosophy, as such, is the proposition of the possibility of creating eternity in time. In this lecture, Alain Badiou draws on the similarities and distinctions of philosophy and religion, concluding that philosophy thinks the possibility of realizing religions' promises in this world, and without the hand of God. European Graduate School EGS 2010

Alain Badiou lecturing about mathematical logic in relation to Aristotles book 4 of the Metaphysics, in particular on the proposition of the excluded middle and its relation to the event as creative novelty. He proposes that of the four types of logic it is the fourth type of negation—the negation that obeys neither the principle of non-contradiction nor the principle of the excluded middle—is in fact the total destruction of any power of negativity. It is the null point of the first three propositions in which negation finally exists only as the negated. Badiou uses this proposition to illustrate his ontology that a thing—be it physical, biological, scientific, philosophic or juridical— is a pure multiplicity without any qualifying determination. The laws of the world are not laws of things themselves but instead laws between the relationships of things. European Graduate School EGS Media and Communications department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2006

Alain Badiou discusses (in French) several controversies associated with his work as a philosopher. He also speaks on issues such as violence, oppression, war, the politics of fear, his understanding of communism, as well as his book based on French President Nicolas Sarkozy, "De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom ?" "What is Sarkozy the name for?".

Alain Badiou at the Communism conference held at Birkbeck College London UK, discussing the communist critique in a world where there is no position outside capitalism.

Alain Badiou's lecture "Introduction à L'Etre et l'événement et aux Logiques des mondes" given at the National Technical University of Athens on 30 Jan 2008. He discusses the four fundamental concepts in his book "L'Être et l'Événement"/"Being and Event" (1988), and talks about its sequel, "Logiques des mondes" / "Logics of Worlds"(2006). (in French).

Alain Badiou speaking about love, what is love, the arena of the two, sensation, desire, sexuality, sexual connection, inexistence, lack, compensation, supplement, order of beeing, nature, order of the event, love is an approach, being and the encounter, individual, other, Jacques Lacan. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

French philosopher Alain Badiou interviewed by Georg Weinand at Aquarium, DasArts building in Brussels. Camera and edit: Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks. June 4-6, 2007.

Alain Badiou, professor of philosophy at European Graduate School EGS, lecturing about "Towards A New Concept of Existence", plenary session, Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), hosted by Villanova University, Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 12-14, 2006

Is democracy a condition for philosophy? This is one of the main pillars of Alain Badiou's philosophy. This clip features the last minutes of his talk at public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006

Alain Badiou reading Brouillons d'Âme / Drafts of the Soul, a collection of poems by his daughter Claude Ariane Badiou. Editions du Pantheon. 2006 (In French)

Alain Badiou speaking about the essence of democracy, political perversion and democracy, dictatorship, politics, majority, satisfaction, enjoyment, pleasure, sexual harmony, democratic freedom, respect of the other, Slavoj Zizek, the throne of Wolfgang Schirmacher, and totalitarism in a lecture without a title. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou talking about Samuel Beckett's work: "Krapps last tape" in a lecture about the relationship of theater, poetry, philosophy, stage, performance, thinking, writing, author and creator. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2003.

Michel Foucault in an interview with Alain Badiou discussing the topic of psychology and psychoanalysis as a science and body of knowledge and its relation to philosophy. 1965. (in French, with Spanish subtitles)