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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826461452

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Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. 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). Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

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"Theoretical Writings provides an overview of Badiou's major concepts, including being, the event and truth, and draws on unpublished manuscripts...What makes Badiou a challenging figure is his insistence on the irreducible multiplicity of truths, encountered between philosophy, and science, art, politics and love." -De Philosophia, 2004

Innehållsförteckning

The Stellar Matheme - Editors' Introduction; Mathematics is Ontology; The Question of Being Today; Philosophy and Mathematics; Platonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics; The Being of Number; One, Multiple, Multiplicity - Addendum A (Historical) Spinoza's Closed Ontology, Addendum B (Conditional) The Desire of the MathemeII; The Subtraction of Truth; The Event as Trans-Being; On Subtraction; Truth - Forcing and the Unnameable; Eight Theses on the Universal - Addendum C (Historical) Kant's Subtractive Ontology, Addendum D (Conditional) Politics as a Truth Procedure III Logics of Appearance; Being and Appearance; Towards a Thought of Appearance; The Transcendental - Addendum E (Historical) Hegel and the Whole, Addendum F (Conditional) Language, Thought, Poetry.