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In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it within the political history of the twentieth century.
Born in Morocco on the eve of catastrophic conflict, Badiou's childhood and youth were marked by the Second World War and the Algerian War, experiences that would shape his political consciousness. Badiou honed his political convictions as an activist and organiser among students and workers and in solidarity with the Algerian independence movement, but his life was upended and transformed by May '68 in ways that were profoundly consequential for his philosophical thought. By weaving his philosophical ideas into the narrative of his life, we see how the concepts for which Badiou is well-known - such as subject, being, event and truth - operate in the domain of experience and history.
Written in an engaging and often playful style, this book illuminates both the unique trajectory of a major philosopher and the turbulent history of the twentieth century, showing how the latter shaped the thinking of a man who has come to embody the very idea of political commitment and radical political thought.
Contents
I. 1937-1971: From Zero to Thirty Years Old or, From My 'Colonial' Birth to the Evental Cut Represented by May 1968
1. Birth, Childhood, and World War (1937-1947)
1a. 1937
1b. Morocco
1c. Bellerive-sur-Allier and Pétain
1d. Toulouse and the Occupation
1e. Toulouse and Liberation
1f. Toulouse and My First Newspaper
1g. Autobiographies and Proper Names
1h. Sex and History: The Burghers of Calais
2. The Paradise of the Lycée (1947-1955)
2a. Toulouse, Transitions: Lycée Bellevue
2b. Toulouse, Toward the End: The First Glimmers of Politics
2c. Honours Received
2d. A Meditation on the Year 1954
3. Failures and Successes (1955-1956)
3a. Into Action!
3b. Historical Invariants, from Poujade to the Gilets Jaunes
3c. I Preside and Fail; I Compete and Succeed
4. I Become a Socialist (1956-1958)
4a. Budding Politicians at the ENS
4b. Lessons from History: The Category of the "Groupuscule"
4c. The Manoeuvrings of the "Socialist" Party
4d. An Obscure Decision?
4e. In the Name of the Father: Adhesion, Structuring, Action
4f. A Subjective Defect: The Oppositional Mentality
4g. Was There Any Point to All of This?
5. 13 May 1958 and its Effects (1958-1961)
5a. Coup d'État and Scission: The PSA
5b. Riots in Budapest, Revolution in Havana
5c. Splits and Fusions: from the PSA to the PSU
5d. 1960-1961 Again: Terray, Verstraeten, Me...and Sartre
5e. The Belgian Dimension of My Political Life: Beginnings
5f. Heroes and Martyrs of Our Vision: Castro, Lumumba
5g. The Workers: A Free Inquiry 80
5h. The Jeanson Network and Clandestinity: The Temptation of the Sublime
6. An Overtly Military Music
6a. Manifesto of the 121
6b. A Handful of Generals on Stage
6c. My France and its Army
6d. A Political Lesson, an Academic Ruse, a Music Exam
6e. An Experience of Mass Alliance: The Army as Seen from Below
6f. The Missile Crisis: The Nuclear War Will Not Take Place
7. A Career of Note in the Champagne Region? (1963-1968)
7a. The Reims Boys' Lycée as Seen Through a Teacher's Eyes
7b. "Leftist" Social Democracy—A Stubborn Myth
7c. A Provincial Temptation à la Balzac
7d. A Trip: Bolivia, for Che Guevara's Tomb
7e. Who Was I in the Spring of 1968?
II. 1968-1985: From Thirty to Forty-Four Years of Age, or, from a Flamboyant Maoism to the Veiled Beginnings of the Ideological and Statist Counter-Revolution
8. "Le Joli Mai" (1968-1970)
8a. Event and Subjectivation Seen from Close Quarters
8b. Two Years that Devastated a Subject: 1969-1970
8c. Provincial Self-sufficiency?
8d. An Anticipation of Maoism: The Sino-Soviet Controversy
8e. The Creation of Paris-VIII and My Uprooting
9. The Early Red Years (1970-1985)
9a. A Creature with a Very Precise Name: Group for the Foundation of the Union of French Communists (Marxist-Leninist)
9b. An Organisation's First Steps
9c. Two Convictions That Have Become Rare
10. Anarchic Journey into the Work of the UCFml (1970-1985)
10a. The Factory as Political Site: Communist Worker Nuclei
10b. On the Side of the People: The Popular Anti-Capitalist Committees
10c. Maoist Politics in the Countryside
10d. A Subjective Parenthesis on the Political Question of "Identities"
10e. University and Youth: Problems of Recruitment
10f. The Maoist Pole
10g. Political Consistency of the International Proletariat of France: The Great Organised Struggle of the Sonacotra Hostels (1975-1979)
10h. Le Marxiste-Léniniste, a Proud Publication
10i. State of the UCFml in the Early 1980s
11. Endgame for the UCFml (1981-1985)
11a. What Was it that Started in the 1980s?
11b. What did I Begin Again in the 1980s?
11c. The Ideologues of the Counter-revolution and their "New Philosophy"
11d. The Capitalist Media, and Our One Hundred and Forty-Five Newspapers
11e. Creation and Development of the Fortnightly Le Perroquet
Provisional Conclusion for the Present Day
