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Badiou and philosophy /

The first reassessment of Alain Badiou's work since the English translation of his Logics of Worlds in 2009 From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bowden, Sean (Editor ), Duffy, Simon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Critical connections.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • I. Philosophy's mathematical condition
  • What is post-Cantorian thought? Transfinitude and the conditions of philosophy / Tzuchien Tho
  • The set-theoretical nature of Badiou's ontology and Lautman's dialectic of problematic ideas / Sean Bowden
  • Badiou's Platonism: the mathematical forms of post-Cantorian set-theory / Dimon Duffy
  • Sets, categories and topoi: approaches to ontology in Badiou's later work / Anindya Bhattacharyya
  • II. Philosophical notions and orientations
  • The black sheep of materialism: the theory of the subject / Ed Pluth
  • A critique of Alain Badiou's denial of time in his philosophy of events / James Williams
  • Doing without ontology: a Quinean pragmatist approach to Badiou / Talia Morag
  • Towards a new political subject: Badiou between Marx and Althusser / Nina Power
  • III. Philosophical figures
  • 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou and Lacan / Justin Clemens and Adam J. Bartlett
  • Badiou and Sartre: freedom, from imagination to chance / Brian A. Smith
  • Badiou's relation of Heidegger in Theory of the subject / Graham Harman
  • One divides into two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze / Jon Roffe.