**Alain Badiou *teaches Philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject ; Being and Event; Manifesto fo...

**Alain Badiou *teaches Philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject ; Being and Event; Manifesto for Philosophy; and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Rebirth of History; Ethics; Metapolitics; Polemics; The Communist Hypothesis; Five Lessons on Wagner; and * Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy.