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Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His Columbia University Press books include Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters (2015) and There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan (with Barbara Cassin, 2017).
Kenneth Reinhard is professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou's works.