France's premier philosopher and its leading historian of psychoanalysis discuss the nature of Jacques Lacan's thought and his legacy.

Foreword: "I am counting on the tourbillon": On the Late Lacan by Jason E. Smith
Preface
1. One Master, Two Encounters
2. Thinking Disorder
Notes
Index

Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).