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Theoretical Writings
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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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 03 Jun 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 300 |
| ISBN | 9781441194329 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Series | Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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