www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the existence of truth. Badiou argues that truths, and universality, do in fact exist in our world, and do so without external divine guarantee. Badiou here argues for a completely new resolution to the universality-particularity problem, namely, through the concept of immanent exception, and a new conceptualization of truth and subject.Public lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Alain Badiou. Alain Badiou (b. 1937, Rabat, Morocco) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, to which he later returned, to become the Chair of the Philosophy Department. Alain Badiou has also taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis), and continues to do so at the Collège International de Philosophie. Badiou was one of the founding members of the Unified Socialist Party, which was particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria. To this day, Badiou remains both a member of the Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), and at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a 'post-party organization' concerned with direct popular intervention in social and political issues. For Badiou, May 1968 only reinforced the commitment to the truth that is communism. Alain Badiou is the author of several ...
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