Monday, November 7, 2016
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
11360 Young Research Library, UCLA
Alain Badiou will present three lectures in Southern California in November:
Monday, Nov. 7 at 7:00PM at the Art Center College of Design: 950 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
“On the Connection between War and Politics”
Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 5:30PM at UCLA: The Young Research Library Conference Room #11360
“Concerning Violence”
Thursday, Nov. 10 at 5:30 at UCLA: The Young Research Library Conference Room #11360
“Reflections on Death, Based on a Poem by Brecht”
Information on the topics of the talks will be available by Oct. 25 at http://ect.humnet.ucla.edu/
No reservation is necessary; seating is on a first come basis.
Co-Sponsored by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.
Alain Badiou is widely considered to be one of the most important Continental philosophers alive today, and one of the greatest thinkers of our time. He was born in Morocco in 1937 and came of age in France in the 1960s, when he began publishing novels, plays, works of philosophy, political theory, and literary and aesthetic criticism. Since then he has written dozens of books and hundreds of essays, which have been read not only by scholars and students all over the world, but by artists, writers, political organizers, and many other people who have been inspired by his strikingly original and powerful ideas, his eloquent writing and teaching, and the example of his personal optimism and commitment. Badiou’s major books of philosophy are Theory of the Subject (1982; English translation 2009), Being and Event (1988; English translation 2005), its sequel, Logics of Worlds (2006; English translation 2009), and a third major volume in this series, The Immanence of Truths, is now in preparation. In addition he has written dozens of books on politics, film, literature, music, ethics, Saint Paul, mathematics, and many other topics. He has also published six plays (which are frequently staged in Europe), three well-received novels, and innumerable occasional pieces.
Cost : Free and open to the public. RSVP not required for admission.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Program in Experimental Critical Theory