"The lesson of the book is: remain faithful to the twentieth century. The Century is not "the best' book of the last decade, it is simply the book of the last decade! Read it with the proper tremor, aware that you are reading a classic, that a figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" Slavoj Zizek "Badiou's sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent." Steve Poole, The Guardian "A refreshing reassertion of the radical possibilities of philosophy." David Revill, THE

Alain Badiou is the author of Being and Event, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, Infinite Thought and Handbook of Inaesthetics. He teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure.