Theoretical Writings

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9324-8
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Continuum Impacts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badiou, Alain

Brassier, Ray

Toscano, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure 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. Continuum will be publishing his magnum opus, Being and Event, as well as a selection from his major works, Alain Badiou: Theoretical Writings.

Ray Brassier
Ray Brassier is Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, UK, and is translator of Alain Badiou's St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism.

Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).