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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786921303321

Autore

Badiou Alain

Titolo

Theoretical Writings [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006

ISBN

1-4411-6314-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Continuum Impacts

Altri autori (Persone)

BrassierRay

ToscanoAlberto

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Methodology

Philosophy, French

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Sources; Editors' Note; Author's Preface; Section 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; Section 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 ProcedureSection III. Logics of Appearance; 14. Being and Appearance; 15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance; 16. The Transcendental; 17. Hegel and the Whole; 18. Language, Thought, Poetry; Notes; Postface; Index of Concepts; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Alain Badiou is arguable 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