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Alain Badiou, an Uncommon card
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Alain Badiou quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alain Badiou card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of ______ and truth.
Answer
universalism. Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of universalism and truth. From the Alain Badiou article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alain Badiou. Alain Badiou 80 · Stress 75 · Epidemic 71 · Amide 68 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Badiou's work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory.
- Badiou's "Being and Event" project considers the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject defined by a rejection of linguistic relativism seen as typical of postwar French thought.
- Unlike his peers, Badiou believes in the idea of universalism and truth.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alain Badiou article was read about 77,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alain Badiou (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Keffieh67, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
