Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Alain Badiou
Born: January 17, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.
Known for:
- Being and event (2001)
- The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
- The meaning of Sarkozy (2008)
- The Adventure of French Philosophy (2012)