For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badious thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badious philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badious projectespecially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marxand on whose work Badiou has developed his provocative philosophy. Ruda draws from Badious oeuvre a series of directives with regard to renewing philosophy for the twenty-first century. For Badiou continues the interrogations of its subject and raises new materialistic and dialectical questions for the next generation of engaged philosophers.