Theoretical Writings

by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier (Editor), Alberto Toscano (Editor)

Overview

Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.

Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474234115
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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 including Being and Event, also published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

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

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

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
Index

Editorial Reviews

Theoretical Writings provides an overview of Badiou's major concepts, including being, the event and truth, and draws on unpublished manuscriptsWhat makes Badiou a challenging figure is his insistence on the irreducible multiplicity of truths, encountered between philosophy, and science,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

From the Publisher

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.

2004 De Philosophia