Alain Badiou is the author of Being and Event, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics and The Meaning of Sarkozy. He is a prominent contemporary French philosopher and teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the European Graduate School (EGS). He has been described as "one of the most important philosophers writing today.
Alberto Toscano is a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Theatre of Production and Fanaticism, translator of Alain Badiou's The Century and Logics of Worlds and co-editor of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings and On Beckett. He has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy, politics and social theory, and is an editor of Historical Materialism.
