A comic introduction to the thought of one of the world's greatest living philosophers, in an entertaining and accessible play, translated into English for the first time.
Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, and professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He has published many philosophical works, including Being and Event and Logics of Worlds, and the play Incident at Antioch: A Tragedy in Three Acts. Joseph Litvak is professor of English at Tufts University and the author of The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel, and Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.