__NOTOC__ Bruno Bosteels (; born 1967,

Leuven, Belgium Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic c ...

) is a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He served until 2010 as the General Editor of ''

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''. Bosteels is best known to the English-speaking world for his work on Latin American literature and culture and his translations of the work of

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouc ...

(a well-known

French philosopher French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern p ...

). ''Theory of the Subject'' appeared in 2009, Bosteels' translation of Badiou's ''Théorie du sujet'' (originally published in France in 1982). Bosteels has research interests spanning contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, political and

critical theory A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from s ...

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;Original works * ''Badiou o el recomienzo del materialismo dialéctico'' (Santiago de Chile: Palinodia, 2007) * ''Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique'' (Editions La Fabrique, 2009) *''The Actuality of Communism'' (New York & London: Verso Books, 2011) (hardcover) *''Badiou and Politics'' (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011) (paperback) *''Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror'' (New York & London: Verso Books, 2012) * ''La Comuna mexicana'' (Ciudad de México: Ediciones Akal, 2021) ;Translations of books *Alain Badiou. ''Theory of the Subject'', (New York: Continuum, 2009): (hardcover) *Alain Badiou. ''Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy'' (New York & London: Verso, 2011) (hardcover) ;Essays *"Post-Maoism: Badiou and Politics." ''Alain Badiou and Cultural Revolution''. Special issue of ''positions: east asia culture critique'' 13.3 (2005): pp. 576–634 *"Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject: The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism." ''Lacan: His Silent Partners''. Ed.

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New ...

(London: Verso, 2006) *"Hegel in America." ''Religion, Politics, and the Dialectic: Hegel and the Opening of the Infinite''. Ed. Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, and Slavoj Žižek. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) *"Rancière's Leftism, or, Politics and Its Discontents." ''Jacques Rancière: Politics, History, Aesthetics''. Ed. Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009). *"Badiou and Hegel." ''Badiou: Key Concepts''. Ed.

Justin Clemens Justin Clemens (born 22 April 1969) is an Australian academic known for his work on Alain Badiou, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, and contemporary Australian art and literature. He is also a published poet. Background Clemens studied at the ...

and A. J. Barlett. (London: Acumen, 2010). *"The Leftist Hypothesis: Communism in the Age of Terror." ''The Idea of Communism''. Ed. Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek. (New York: Verso, 2010). ;Interviews *"Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou." ''Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions.'' Ed. Gabriel Riera (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005) – this Bosteels interview of Badiou has been reprinted in the appendix to Bosteels' book ''Badiou and Politics'', published in 2011

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