LEADER 02884nam 22005053u 450 001 9910820122303321 005 20230828232622.0 010 $a1-4411-6314-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000109467 035 $a(EBL)1750866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1750866 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000109467 100 $a20141020d2006|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheoretical Writings 210 $aLondon $cBloomsbury Publishing$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum Impacts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-9324-6 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a13. 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 330 $aAlain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou''s work revitalizes philosophy''s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou''s ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou''s controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. Also included is a substantial extract 410 0$aContinuum Impacts 606 $aMethodology 606 $aPhilosophy, French 606 $aPhilosophy 615 4$aMethodology. 615 4$aPhilosophy, French. 615 4$aPhilosophy. 676 $a194 700 $aBadiou$b Alain$044535 701 $aBrassier$b Ray$0769939 701 $aToscano$b Alberto$0241221 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820122303321 996 $aTheoretical Writings$93993530 997 $aUNINA