September 21, 2008
Leslie A. White
In the pre-’60s at the University of Michigan, rebellion consisted of
listening gleefully to the anthropologist Leslie White going mano a
mano with God. White was one of those maverick intellectuals and
politicians, like Thorstein Veblen, Charles Beard and Robert
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou French philosophy
Contemporary philosophy
Full name Alain Badiou
Born 17 January 1937 (1937-01-17) (age 72)
Rabat, Morocco
School/tradition Continental philosophy
Main interests Set Theory, Mathematics, Metapolitics, Ontology
Notable ideas Event, truths
Influenced
