Theoretical writings Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Contributor:

Brassier, Ray, editor.

Toscano, Alberto, editor.

Series:

Athlone contemporary European thinkers.

Athlone contemporary European thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alain Badiou is arguably 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 from Badiou's forthcoming work on the logics of appearance and the concept of world, presented here in advance of its French publication. Ranging from startling re-readings of canonical figures (Spinoza, Kant and Hegel) to decisive engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics, Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time. The volume also features a preface written by the author especially for this collection

Contents:

List of Sources

Editors' Note

Author's Preface

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

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 Procedure

III. Logics of Appearance

14. Being and Appearance

15. Notes Towards a Thinking of Appearance

16. The Transcendental

17. Hegel and the Whole

18. Language, Thought, Poetry

Notes

Index of Concepts

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and indexes

ISBN:

9786613207814

9781472547736

147254773X

9781283207812

1283207818

9781441194329

1441194320

OCLC:

745866000