02816nam 22004693u 450 991082012230332120230828232622.01-4411-6314-X(CKB)3710000000109467(EBL)1750866(MiAaPQ)EBC1750866(EXLCZ)99371000000010946720141020d2006|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Theoretical Writings[electronic resource]London Bloomsbury Publishing20061 online resource (299 p.)Continuum ImpactsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-9324-6 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 Universal13. 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; ZAlain 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 Continuum ImpactsMethodologyPhilosophy, FrenchPhilosophyMethodology.Philosophy, French.Philosophy.194Badiou Alain44535Brassier Ray769939Toscano Alberto241221AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910820122303321Theoretical Writings3993530UNINA