Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).
This set of exchanges adds significantly to our current appreciation of both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Badiouian philosophy. For readers curious about both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Badiouian philosophy, this book will be an irresistible must read. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico This is a highly readable and relevant discussion. Badiou and Roudinesco each contribute an important piece of the puzzle that is the figure and thought of Jacques Lacan. Both the general reader and the specialists in either Badiou or Lacan's thought will be able to appreciate this book in its English translation. -- Bruno Bosteels, author of Badiou and Politics