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Record Nr.

UNISA996320170103316

Autore

Gillespie Sam

Titolo

The Mathematics of Novelty [[electronic resource] ] : Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Melbourne, : re.press, 2008

ISBN

0-9805440-8-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Anamnesis

Disciplina

111

194

Soggetti

Mathematics

Philosophy

Ontology

Materialism

Metaphysics

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 - Conditions of the New: Deleuze and Badiou; 2 - Nothing That Is; 3 - Approximately Infinite Universe; 4 - Beyond Being: Badiou's Doctrine of Truth; 5 - Giving Form to Its Own Existence: Anxiety and the Subject of Truth; 6 - From Reflection to Transformation: What is Philosophy?; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.