Dr. Madarasz Delivers Keynote on Alain Badiou’s Philosophy at UNICAMP

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In the beginning of June 2025, Dr. Madarasz spoke at Brazil’s prestigious University of Campinas (UNICAMP) as part of the First International Conference on Alain Badiou held in Brazil, hosted by the Institute of Language Studies (IEL-Unicamp). Dr. Madarasz gave the opening keynote address with a paper dealing with philosophy as generative inquiry as articulated by Badiou’s theory of conditions. The title of Dr. Madarasz’s talk was “Through the Glia of Alain Badiou’s philosophical system: condensations, ramifications, limitations, extrapolações”. The title in Portuguese was “Pela glia do sistema filosófico de Alain Badiou: condensações, ramificações, limitações, extrapolações”.
 
Dr. Madarasz is an internationally acclaimed scholar in this monumental philosophical enterprise, the scope of which entails contemporary French philosophy as a whole. Alain Badiou, born in 1937, achieved international recognition for his impactful thesis according to which “mathematics is ontology”. Badiou held various faculty positions, the most recent being at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he was head of the philosophy department and the International Center for Studies in Contemporary French Philosophy (CIEPFC). A prolific author, dramaturge and political analyst, Badiou is most known for the three volumes of L’Être et l’événement (Being and Event): Being and Event 1, 1988; Being and Event 2: Logics of Worlds, 2006; and, Being and Event 3: The Immanence of Truths, 2018. By pioneering the conceptual insertion of some of the greatest innovations stemming from Set, Category and Topos Theory and contemporary mathematics of the infinite into philosophy, Badiou has revolutionized the field. As such, his contributions have sparked a renewal of philosophy’s systematic vocation as understood from the tradition of French rationalism.
 
After accomplishing his Ph.D. under Prof. Badiou’s supervision at the Université de Paris, Dr. Madarasz went on to edit, translate and theorize some of Badiou’s first works to be translated into the English language. Manifesto for Philosophy, followed by Two Essays appeared in 1999, and Briefings on Existence: Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology in 2006. Both were published by the State University of New York Press. Dr. Madarasz is also editor and idealizer of the Brazilian book, Alain Badiou Validações: textos sobre matemática, sistema e ontologia (1998-2018) and author of the only work on the philosophical system created by Badiou to be found in the Portuguese language: O Múltiplo sem Um (2011).

Dr. Madarasz

- Director -
The Monarch Global
Research Institute

About Dr. Madarasz

Dr. Madarasz is an international specialist in political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy and international geoeconomic relations. Dr. Madarasz now holds the position of Director of the Monarch Global Research Institute.  He is the author of six books and editor of ten collected volumes and translations. He has published over eighty essays and book chapters in peer-reviewed academic journals in English, French, and Portuguese over a broad range of questions related to ethics, economics, politics, history, religion, language, and logic. Dr. Madarasz has supervised over forty Masters’ and Ph.D. projects. He has been an invited speaker at a host of leading universities in Brazil, Uruguay, and France, in addition to lecturing in Canada, the United States, and Chile. In addition, Dr. Madarasz has been a frequent contributor to various news outlets, with think pieces on geopolitical and international affairs, BRICS+ and North/South relations. At the undergraduate level, he has been lecturer in the departments of Business Administration, Law, Philosophy, History and Literary Sciences in a host of universities.

Over his twenty years experience as an academic, Dr. Madarasz was most recently Associate Professor in Political Philosophy and Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul State, in Porto Alegre, Brazil (PUC-RS). From 2009 to 2012, he was director of the Department of Philosophy at Universidade Gama Filho, in Rio de Janeiro, following an invitation to act as Capes foreign visiting fellow in 2005-6. In 2011, he was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree from Monarch Business School Switzerland. In 2014, he acted as visiting scholar at the Universidad de la República (Udelar, Montevideo), and in 2022, Dr. Madarasz was Invited Capes/PrInt Fellow at the Université Paris VIII, where he presented a semester long seminar on Alain Badiou’s philosophical system.