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Badiou, Alain,

Theoretical writings / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano. - London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2004 - xvi, 294 p ; 23 cm. - Bloomsbury revelations . - Bloomsbury revelations. .

Originally published by Continuum: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section I. Ontology is mathematics. 1. Mathematics and philosophy : the grand style and the little style ; 2. Philosophy and mathematics : infinity and the end of romanticism ; 3. The question of being today ; 4. Platonism and mathematical ontology ; 5. The being of number ; 6. One, multiple, multiplicities ; 7. Spinoza's closed ontology -- Sect. II. The subtraction of truth. 8. The event as trans-being ; 9. On subtraction ; 10. Truth : forcing and the unnameable ; 11. Kant's subtractive ontology ; 12. Eight theses on the universal ; 13. Politics as truth procedure -- Sect. 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.


Text in English, translated from the French.

ISBN: 9781474234115 1474234119

LCCN: 2016440473

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Philosophy.
Methodology.
Philosophy, French.

LC Class. No.: B53 / .B23 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 194