Images of the Present Time - Paperbackby Alain Badiou (Author), Susan Spitzer (Translator), Kenneth Reinhard (Introduction by) Alain Badiou began the twenty first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into