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Modern French Philosophy

A Refutation of Snails By Roast Beef

James Alexander finds Alain Badiou guilty of horrors but sometimes worth reading.

It is always a pleasure to read a review by one established philosopher of another. In the Times Literary Supplement of 31 August 2012, Roger Scruton reviewed The Adventure of French Philosophy by Alain Badiou (b.1937). Badiou is one of those ‘New Left’ French intellectuals who came too late to be taken apart in Scruton’s Thinkers of the New Left in the 1980s, and so Scruton caught up with him then.

Scruton’s review of this ragbag of old essays and reviews is exemplary, and there is no need for me to repeat what it says.

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