Record Nr.

UNINA9910969930103321

Autore

Watkin William

Titolo

Badiou and indifferent being : a critical introduction to Being and event / / William Watkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa


[New York] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

9781350015692

1350015695

9781350015654

1350015652

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Disciplina

111

Soggetti

Events (Philosophy)

Ontology

Set theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- One. Indifferent Being. Chapter 1. Being: The One and the Multiple ; Chapter 2. Being: Separation, Void, Mark ; Chapter 3. Being and Excess ; Chapter 4. Nature and Infinity -- Two. Indifferent Events. Chapter 5. The Event: History and Ultra-One ; Chapter 6. The Event, Intervention and Fidelity ; Chapter 7. The Generic ; Chapter 8. Forcing: Truth and Subject -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy". Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds, published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this book is also the first to draw out the central component of Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across the core elements Being and Event the void, the multiple, the set

and the event Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text for all Badiou readers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.