- Lived:
- Born January 17, 1937, Rabat, Morocco (then a French protectorate) · Paris
- Tradition:
- Contemporary French philosophy; the last great system-builder of the Continental line
- The Big Idea:
- Mathematics is the science of being itself, and truths are born when an unpredictable event ruptures a situation — and someone stays faithful to it.
- In their words:
- "There are only bodies and languages — except that there are truths."
- If you remember one thing:
- In an age that declared grand philosophy dead, Badiou built a full system on set theory and revolution — and insisted that truth, with no apologies, is universal.