1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461331303321

Autore

Badiou Alain

Titolo

Theoretical writings / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2004

ISBN

1-4725-4773-X

1-283-20781-8

9786613207814

1-4411-9432-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Athlone contemporary European thinkers

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy

Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and indexes

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910163420503321

Autore

Dunn Carola

Titolo

Buried in the country / / Carola Dunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ashland, : Blackstone Publishing, 2017

ISBN

1-4708-6255-7

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital

Collana

Cornish Mystery, ; 4.

Classificazione

FIC022000FIC022040

Altri autori (Persone)

McCaddonWanda

Soggetti

Fiction

Mystery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Audiolibro

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

After many years working around the world for an international charity in the late 1960s, Eleanor Trewynn has retired to the relative quiet of a small town in Cornwall. But her quiet life is short-lived when, due to her experience, the Commonwealth Relations Office reaches out to her to assist in a secret conference that is to take place in a small hotel outside the historical village of Tintagel.  Meanwhile, her niece, Detective Sergeant Megan Pencarrow, is investigating the disappearance of a local solicitor when she is assigned to help provide security for the conference. Two African students, refugees from Ian Smith's Rhodesia, arrive for the conference, escorted by Megan's bĂȘte



noire from Scotland Yard. They are followed by two mysterious and sinister Londoners, whose allegiances and connections to the conference and the missing solicitor are unclear. With a raging storm having trapped everyone in the hotel, the stage is set for murder, and it's up to Eleanor and Megan to uncover the truth before more lives are lost.