The True Life

One of the biggest thinkers of our time, Alain Badiou, addresses young people—boys and girls—with reflections and guidance on what it means to live truly.

Today, such a speech by an intellectual, steeped in a Socratic spirit, could easily seem scandalous, stirring, even provocative. However, it is precisely Badiou’s decisiveness and principled nature that makes his attempt to bring back into philosophy the question of true life particularly noticeable and worth attention.

Contents
1. Being young today: meaning and meaninglessness
2. On the contemporary becoming of young men
3. On the contemporary becoming of girls