The One

Descartes, Plato, Kant

AvAlain Badiou

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series on “the One” is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no “One”: there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.What is novel in Badiou’s view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things—yet, as he observes, it often is taken to “count as one” operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between “the One” and “counting as one” emerges as essential to Badiou’s ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, Being and Event.Showcasing the seeds of Badiou’s key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-04
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:368 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Seminars of Alain Badiou
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231218801
Översättare:Jacques Lezra, Susan Spitzer

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His seminars published by Columbia University Press include Lacan (2018), Malebranche (2019), and Images of the Present Time (2023).Jacques Lezra is professor and chair of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside.Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou’s works.Kenneth Reinhard is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Alain Badiou’s seminars are essential to understanding the evolution of his thought. This much-awaited collection of Badiou’s teachings enables the English-speaking world to experience the ‘true heart’ of his philosophy.

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Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouAuthor’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouIntroduction to Alain Badiou’s seminar The One (1983–1984) (Kenneth Reinhard)About the 1983–1984 SeminarSession 1Session 2Session 3Session 4Session 5Session 6Session 7Session 8Session 9Session 10Session 11Session 12Session 13Session 14Session 15Session 16NotesIndex