A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

There he engaged in fierce intellectual debates with fellow professors Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard whose philosophical works he considered unhealthy deviations from the Althusserian program of a scientific Marxism. Biography
Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1957–1961). Badiou has written about the concepts of being truth and the subject in a way that he claims is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity.

Badiou has written about the concepts of being truth and the subject in a way that he claims is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Politically Badiou is committed to the far left and to the communist tradition.