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The text traces Badiou’s intellectual development from Sartre and phenomenology toward structuralism and deconstruction, engaging Althusser, Lévi-Strauss, Heideggerian themes, Derrida, and Lacan. It argues that politics requires orientation, decisions, and principles, making a subjective dimension necessary.","Philosophy and the Idea of Communism  \nPhilosophy and the Idea of Communism  \nAlain Badiou in conversation with Peter Engelmann  \nTranslated by Susan Spitzer  \npolity  \nFirst published in German as Philosophie und die Idee des Kommunismus © Passagen Verlag GmbH, 2013  \nThis English edition © Polity Press, 2015  \nPolity Press  \n65 Bridge Street  \nCambridge CB2 1UR, UK  \nPolity Press  \n350 Main Street  \nMalden, MA 02148, USA  \nAll rights reserved. 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However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but ifany have been inadvertently overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.  \nFor further information on Polity, [visit our website: politybooks.com](visit our website: politybooks.com)  \n1  \n23 March 2012  \nPeter Engelmann Before we turn to the specific topic of our discussion,“the Idea of communism”in your philosophical work, I’d like to contextualize these questions in terms of both philosophy and politics. In your philosophy you develop a concept of the subject different from that ofcapitalist society, which views the subject reductively as a consumer and an economic competitor. The concept of the subject has a long history in philosophy, and in France there has been, as well, a theory of the death of the subject. What I’m interested in is how your concept of the subject has been inscribed in the French philosophical context since the 1960s to 1970s.  \nphilosophy and the idea of communism  \nAlain Badiou I’d like to make two comments about this. First of all, my first great philosophical influence was Sartre, in the 1950s. During all my early years of studying philosophy I considered the category of the subject to be fundamental, and it was, in particular in the form of the free consciousness, as Sartre was developing it atthe time. I can therefore say that, philosophically, I come from, or come out of, a philosophy dominated by the theory of the subject, with a phenomenological vocabulary. So it was the subject in Sartre’s sense, but also in Merleau-Ponty’s sense, or even in Husserl’s sense. Starting in the late 1950s, when I arrived at the École Normale, met Althusser, read Derrida’s first books, and encountered Lacan’s teaching, I became involved in what was called structuralism at the time, that is, a philosophy in which the subject is problematic. In Althusser’s view, the subject was an ideological concept, a bourgeois concept. In the view of Lévi-Strauss and the structuralist tradition, it was structures that mattered, and, in the Heideggerian tradition, the subject was a concept from metaphysics that needed to be deconstructed. 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