L'Éclat de l'absolu, Dialogues avec Alain Badiou (New! Launch on 31/03/2025 in Paris)
L’Éclat de l’absolu offers perhaps the most comprehensive and systematic collection of interviews realized to date on Badiou’s philosophical “masters”: Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan, and Deleuze. These dialogues are a true anamnesis, supported by a profound knowledge of the work of Badiou and other thinkers and by a constant return to the texts. They offer new and sometimes more accessible points of view on his major works such as Being and Event (1988) and The Immanence of Truths (2018) as well as considerations on the problems of Marxism, on the critique of the party-state, the role of the absolute and the possibilities to overcome the death drive and to reconcile conscious and unconscious spheres of a human psyche.
To honor the “classical” aspects of Badiou’s complex system of thought, L’Éclat de l’absolu is published in a hardcover edition with a golden foil-stamp print and includes drawings inspired by baroque engravings and the French Encyclopedia made by Alexey Klyuykov a Czech artist of Russian origin. A true editorial work of art and a book-lovers’ dream, this book opens new paths for the future of philosophy.
WE'LL BE LAUNCHING THIS BOOK AT THE INSTITUTE FOR IDEAS AND IMAGINATION, REID HALL, IN PARIS
On March 31, 2025
With with Alain Badiou, Jana Ndiaye Berankova, and Nick Nesbitt
7 p.m.
Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Free and open to the public
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT HERE
Alain Badiou is a philosopher, a novelist and a playwright. He was one of the founding members of the philosophy department at the University of Paris VIII – Vincennes and is professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure. His main works are Being and Event (1988), Logics of Worlds (2006), and The Immanence of Truths (2018).
Jana Ndiaye Berankova is an art and architecture theorist, philosopher, writer, and publisher. She studied art history and comparative literature at the École normale supérieure and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France) and architecture at Columbia University, where she completed her PhD dissertation on the links between architecture theory and French philosophy from 1965 to 1990. At the Institute, Ndiaye Berankova is working on a project focusing on the theoretical discourse on architecture and urban planning between the 1960s and the end of 1980s in Senegal. She runs Suture Press, a non-profit publishing house focusing on carefully designed hardback books on continental philosophy, contemporary art, and architectural theory.
