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Briefings on existence :

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0791468038 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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0791468046 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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9780791468036 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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9780791468043 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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b524695

Title Proper

Briefings on existence :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a short treatise on transitory ontology /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alain Badiou ; translated, edited and with an introduction by Norman Madarasz

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2006

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 190 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Suny series, intersections-- philosophy and critical theory

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index

Text of Note

Prologue: God is dead -- The question of being today -- Mathematics as a thought -- The event as trans-being -- Deleuzes vitalist ontology -- Spinozas closed ontology -- Platonism and mathematical ontology -- The aristotelian orientation and logic -- Logic, philosophy, linguistic turn -- First remarks on the concept of topos -- First provisional theses on logic -- The being of number -- Kants subtractive ontology -- Group, category, subject -- Being and appearing

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"This book continues Alain Badiou's project to posit an integral link between mathematics and ontology. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, Briefings on Existence engages the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and outlines how the philosophical inquiry into Being and existence converges with the possible world topology of category theory. Set against the background of a multiplication of gods that can be declared dead (the gods of religions, metaphysics, and poetry), Badiou argues that the extension of these events has fallen short of accomplishing its collective promise, but can be achieved through the mathematical understanding of ontology. After several remarkable decades of theoretical invention, French philosophy stands at a crossroads, and Badiou's egalitarian materialism is one of its strongest calls forward"--BOOK JACKET

General Material Designation

Court traité d'ontologie transitoire.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Ontology

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Edition

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Book number

Badiou, Alain

Madarasz, Norman

Date of Transaction

20060331114222.0

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[Book]

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