L’Éclat de l’absolu – Dialogues avec Alain Badiou

L’Éclat de l’absolu offers perhaps the most comprehensive and systematic collection of interviews realized to date on Badiou’s philosophical “masters”: Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan, and Deleuze. These dialogues are a true anamnesis, supported by a profound knowledge of the work of Badiou and other thinkers and by a constant return to the texts. They offer new and sometimes more accessible points of view on his major works such as Being and Event (1988) and The Immanence of Truths (2018) as well as considerations on the problems of Marxism, on the critique of the party-state, the role of the absolute and the possibilities to overcome the death drive and to reconcile conscious and unconscious spheres of a human psyche.

To honor the “classical” aspects of Badiou’s complex system of thought, L’Éclat de l’absolu is published in a hardcover edition with a golden foil-stamp print and includes drawings inspired by baroque engravings and the French Encyclopedia made by Alexey Klyuykov a Czech artist of Russian origin. A true editorial work of art and a book-lovers’ dream, this book opens new paths for the future of philosophy.