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Alain Badiou

1937 - Today

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Alain Badiou (; French: [alɛ̃ badju] ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Badiou has received more than 1,091,052 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Alain Badiou is the 293rd most popular philosopher (down from 272nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Morocco (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Moroccan Philosopher.

Alain Badiou is most famous for his theory of the event. He argues that an event is a rupture in the normal flow of history, which opens up a new situation.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alain Badiou ranks 293 out of 1,267. Before him are Paramahansa Yogananda, G. E. Moore, Francisco Suárez, Johann Reuchlin, Crates of Thebes, and Roscellinus. After him are Thomas Carlyle, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Alexander of Aphrodisias, James Ussher, Otto Weininger, and Franz Brentano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Alain Badiou ranks 32. Before him are Mengistu Haile Mariam, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Gordon Banks, Bruce McLaren, Abu Nidal, and Colin Powell. After him are Karel Schwarzenberg, Bill Cosby, Jared Diamond, Warren Beatty, Gennady Yanayev, and Sajida Talfah.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Alain Badiou ranks 11 out of 264. Before him are Abd el-Krim (1882), Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937), Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), and Nathalie Delon (1941). After him are Serge Haroche (1944), Michel Galabru (1922), Ibn Tumart (1097), Fatema Mernissi (1940), Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (1160), and Yusef of Morocco (1882).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Morocco

Among philosophers born in Morocco, Alain Badiou ranks 1. 

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