Alain Badiou

Theoretical Writings (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brassier, Ray; Toscano, Alberto

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474234139
• Artikelnr.: 43977709

Autorenporträt

Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

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