id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6937 Alain Badiou - Wikipedia .html text/html 9383 1140 64 Alain Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and then the École Normale Supérieure (1955–1960).[3] In 1960, he wrote his diplôme d'études supérieures [fr] (roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Spinoza for Georges Canguilhem (the topic was "Demonstrative Structures in the First Two Books of Spinoza's Ethics", "Structures démonstratives dans les deux premiers livres de l'Éthique de Spinoza").[4] He taught at the lycée in Reims from 1963 where he became a close friend of fellow playwright (and philosopher) François Regnault,[5] and published a couple of novels before moving first to the faculty of letters of the University of Reims (the collège littéraire universitaire)[6] and then to the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) in 1969.[7] Badiou was politically active very early on, and was one of the founding members of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6937.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6937.txt