In the present thesis, we attempt to examine the meta-ontological problematics of Alain Badiou and situate his speculative metaphysics in the overall cultural milieu of contemporary philosophy. As an introductory survey to the main objective, we first present his earlier works up to and including Theory of the Subject (1982), in order to establish lines of continuity, as well as breaks in the effectuated subjects, resources, and conceptual structures (chapter 1). Badiou’s main endeavour can be seen as an attempt at bridging the gap between certain varieties of structuralism and Sartrean existentialism through maintaining a close relationship with mathematical formalism. In the next couple of chapters, we turn towards his mature philosophi...