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In partnership with Flammarion and Le Bal des Ardents.

Presented by : Gilles Haéri. With : Alain Badiou

In The Republic, Plato claims that one cannot discover truths without a lengthy education in mathematics and constantly doing exercises in logic. Only if you refuse to follow prevailing opinions and trust in the truths of which your thinking is a part can you achieve happiness.
This philosophical praise of mathematics begs the question of the relationship between mathematics, truth, and happiness. Is the path clear for anyone armed with the difficult yet luminous knowledge of mathematics, such that the philosophical strategy can say to all human animals: “here is something to convince you that thinking contrary to popular opinion and in the service of a few truths, far from being the ungrateful, vain task you imagine it to be, is the shortest route to real life, which, when it exists, makes itself known through incomparable happiness”? This is the subject of conversation between Alain Badiou and Gilles Haéri.

Reservations are now closed. Tickets are available tonight at the box office before the meeting.