title: The Adventure of French Philosophy
author:  Alain Badiou 
description: &amp;ldquo;French philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned.&amp;rdquo;Jonathan Re, <i>Prospect</i><br /><br />&amp;ldquo;One of the most important philosophers writing today.&amp;rdquo;Joan Copjec<br /><br />&amp;ldquo;A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!&amp;rdquo;Slavoj iek<br /><br />&amp;ldquo;An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.&amp;rdquo;<i>New Statesman</i><br /><br />&amp;ldquo;Focused and illuminating, technical and deft.&amp;rdquo;Shahidha Bari, <i>Times Higher Education</i><br /><br />&amp;ldquo;A series of snapshots of how Badiou participates in and understands what ... we might call the post-1960s moment in French philosophy.&amp;rdquo;<i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i>
zlib_text: 7heory of the Subject, first published in 
  France in 1982, is without doubt one 
  of Alain Badiou's most important works, 
  laying many of the foundations for his 
  magnum opus, Being and Event and its 
  follow-up, Logics of Worlds. 
  Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory 
  of the subject for Marxism through 
  a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, 
  offering a major contribution to 
  Marxism, as well as to the larger debate 
  regarding the relationship between 
  psychoanalysis and philosophy. The book 
  also provides a theory of structural 
  thought, a contemporary redefinition 
  of materialism, a unique evaluation 
  of the achievements of French Maoism 
  during the 1970s and the significance 
  of the events of May 1968, and 
  breathtaking analyses of literature, from 
  Greek tragedy to Mallarme's poetry. 
  As a theoretical synthesis, the book is 
  extraordinary in terms of its originality, , 
  breadth and clarity. 
  This is arguably Badiou's most creative 
  and passionate book, encompassing 
  the entire battlef