Theoretical Writings

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). Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. 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).

• Editor's NoteAuthor's PrefacePart I. Mathematics is Ontology1. Mathematics and Philosophy2. Philosophy and Mathematics3. The Question of Being 4. TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics5. The Being of Number6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities7. Spinoza¹s Closed OntologyPart II. The Subtraction of Truth8. The Event as Trans-Being9. On Subtraction10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable11. Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology12. Eight Theses on the Universal13. Politics as a Truth ProcedurePart III. Logics of Appearance14. Being and Appearance15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance16. The Transcendental17. Hegel and the Whole18. Language, Thought, PoetryNotesPostfaceIndices