Alain Badiou
French philosopher
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. Wikipedia
Born: 1937 (age 87 years), Rabat, Morocco
Influenced by: Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and more
Influenced: Jacques Rancière, Ray Brassier, Simon Critchley, and more
Children: Lusamba Olivier Ntumba Winter Badiou
Parents: Raymond Badiou
Education: École Normale Supérieure (B.A., M.A.)
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