Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths

This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou’s claim that his work is a ‘Platonism of the multiple’ and that philosophy today requires a ‘platonic gesture’. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato’s philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: ‘what is education?’

• Corrects many errors in the existing commentary on Badiou’s work
• Extracts a key Platonic theme crucial at every level of culture today: education