ABSTRACT
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Alain Badiou has gone from being a philosopher relatively unknown to those working outside of France to the most influential living European philosopher in English-language scholarship. Writing in the wake of the post-structuralist and post-modernist movements that remained prominent through the end of the twentieth century, Badiou proposes a revival of categories such as truth, subjectivity, and universality; and rather than relying on a philosophical methodology that could be considered a sort of post-Heideggarian poetics, Badiou instead utilizes post-Cantorian set theory mathematics to once again attempt to think being-qua-being. Rather than celebrating the “end of metaphysics” and the “death of the subject,” Badiou continues to work as if these events were mere mishaps in the continuing history of classical philosophical thought.
