Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 256 p)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
082646145X
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9781472547736
Content:
List of Sources -- Editors' Note -- Author's Preface -- I. Ontology is Mathematics -- 1. Mathematics and Philosophy: The Grand Style and the Little Style -- 2. Philosophy and Mathematics: Infinity and the End of Romanticism -- 3. The Question of Being Today -- 4. Platonism and Mathematical Ontology -- 5. The Being of Number -- 6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities -- 7. Spinoza's Closed Ontology -- II. The Subtraction of Truth -- 8. The Event as Trans-Being -- 9. On Subtraction -- 10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable -- 11. Kant's Subtractive Ontology -- 12. Eight Theses on the Universal -- 13. Politics as Truth Procedure -- III. Logics of Appearance -- 14. Being and Appearance -- 15. Notes Towards a Thinking of Appearance -- 16. The Transcendental -- 17. Hegel and the Whole -- 18. Language, Thought, Poetry -- Notes -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Names
Content:
Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. Also included is a substantial extract from Badiou's forthcoming work on the logics of appearance and the concept of world, presented here in advance of its French publication. Ranging from startling re-readings of canonical figures (Spinoza, Kant and Hegel) to decisive engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics, Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time. The volume also features a preface written by the author especially for this collection
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252) and indexes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826461452
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ISBN 0826461468
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472547736
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