1937 - Today
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 1,033,560 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Alain Badiou is the 272nd most popular philosopher (down from 265th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Morocco 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, Alain Badiou ranks 272 out of 1,081. Before him are Andronicus of Rhodes, Julius Evola, Pherecydes of Syros, Paramahansa Yogananda, William Godwin, and Georges Sorel. After him are Raymond Aron, Alexander of Aphrodisias, G. E. Moore, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Priscus, and Bruno Bauer.
100 BC - 60 BC
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 266
1898 - 1974
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 267
580 BC - 520 BC
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 268
1893 - 1952
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 269
1756 - 1836
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 270
1847 - 1922
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 271
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 272
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
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200 - 215
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 274
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
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1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 276
410 - 471
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 277
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 278
Among people born in 1937, Alain Badiou ranks 33. Before him are Philip Glass, Bruce McLaren, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Jared Diamond, Gennady Yanayev, and Bill Cosby. After him are David Hockney, Gordon Banks, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Avram Hershko, Robert Lucas Jr., and Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 27
1937 - 1970
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1937 - 2024
HPI: 65.32
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1937 - Present
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1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
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1937 - Present
HPI: 64.90
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1937 - Present
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 33
1937 - Present
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1937 - 2019
HPI: 63.84
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1937 - Present
HPI: 63.82
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1937 - Present
HPI: 63.51
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1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 38
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 39
Among people born in Morocco, Alain Badiou ranks 10 out of 198. Before him are Hassan II of Morocco (1929), Abd el-Krim (1882), Just Fontaine (1933), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), and Nathalie Delon (1941). After him are Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963), Ahmad al-Mansur (1549), Michel Galabru (1922), Fatema Mernissi (1940), Serge Haroche (1944), and Zeno of Verona (300).
1929 - 1999
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1882 - 1963
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1933 - 2023
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1646 - 1727
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1909 - 1961
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1941 - 2021
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1937 - Present
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1963 - Present
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1549 - 1603
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1922 - 2016
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1940 - 2015
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1944 - Present
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300 - 371
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Among philosophers born in Morocco, Alain Badiou ranks 1.