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Theoretical Writings

by Alain Badiou
edited by Alberto Toscano
edited by Ray Brassier

  • Imprint: Continuum
  • Series: Continuum Impacts
  • Pub. date: 22 Jun 2006
  • ISBN: 9780826493248
320 Pages, paperback World rights
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Description

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.
 

Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Author's Preface
Part I. Mathematics is Ontology
1.    Mathematics and Philosophy
2.    Philosophy and Mathematics
3.    The Question of Being
4.    TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics
5.    The Being of Number
6.    One, Multiple, Multiplicities
7.    Spinoza¹s Closed Ontology
Part II. The Subtraction of Truth
8.    The Event as Trans-Being
9.    On Subtraction
10.  Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable
11.  Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology
12.  Eight Theses on the Universal
13.  Politics as a Truth Procedure
Part III.  Logics of Appearance
14.  Being and Appearance
15.  Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance
16.  The Transcendental
17.  Hegel and the Whole
18.  Language, Thought, Poetry
Notes
Postface
Indices

Author(s)

Alain Badiou,

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.


Alberto Toscano, 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).

Ray Brassier,

Ray Brassier is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, UK.


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