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Speaking against number : Heidegger, language and the politics of calculation / Stuart Elden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elden, Stuart, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Taking on the Political
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Political and social views.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Engages with the relation between politics and number through a reading exegesis and critique of the work of Martin Heidegger.
- Contents:
- Speaking : rhetorical politics
- Logos, logic and speech
- Reading Aristotle
- The importance of rhetoric
- Being together politically
- From Mitsein to community
- Phronesis and leadership
- Against : polemical politics
- 'The inner truth ... and greatness ... of national socialism'
- Number : calculative politics
- The problem of world
- Arithmetic and geometry
- Descartes and extension
- The measure of all things
- The politics of calculation
- Taking the measure of the political.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6801-2
- 0-7486-5251-5
- 1-280-71570-7
- 9786610715701
- 0-7486-2628-X
- OCLC:
- 476028298
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