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Introduction

Canadian born, Norman Madarasz earned his B.A. (Honours) in Philosophy at McGill University in 1986, after completing the pure and applied sciences program at Marianopolis CEGEP. He went on to earn his Maîtrise, Diplôme d'études approfondies and Ph.D. from Université de Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint-Denis. His Ph.D. dissertation was supervised by Alain Badiou. In 2011, Norman was granted a D. Litt. in Applied Ethics from Monarch Business School Switzerland. From 1999-2006, he worked as freelance journalist for Counterpunch and Islam on Line. He was CAPES Visiting Fellow in Brazil in 2005 and 2006 at the Graduate Program in Philosophy, Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro, achieving tenure in 2008. Thereafter, he was appointed Chair of the program in 2010. In 2011, he coordinated the creation of the undergraduate program in philosophy at the same university. He is the author of five books, co-editor of seven others as well as translator/editor of three books by Alain Badiou. He is currently Research Professor in the Graduate Program of Philosophy and the Graduate Program in Literature and Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul State (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, working in the area of French philosophy (ontology, structuralism, biolinguistics and political philosophy), contemporary French literature and Gender Studies, as well as an editor of the periodical, Veritas.