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Logics of Worlds : Being and Event II by Alain Badiou (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-100826494706
ISBN-139780826494702
eBay Product ID (ePID)64068486
Product Key Features
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLogics of Worlds : Being and Event II
Publication Year2009
SubjectGeneral, Metaphysics, Logic
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy
AuthorAlain Badiou
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight30.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-036972
Dewey Edition23
Reviews... [provides] a comprehensive understanding of the French author's philosophical views... Responding to the problems raised in postmodern French thought, Alain Badiou's book offers an original rational scenario of interpreting them in a new key., "This time it's true; this really IS the book we have been waiting for. Since the publication of his magisterial Being and Event , we have been impatient to see what could not be foreseen: the way worlds look, according to Badiou. Logics of Worlds delivers a powerful theory of the uncanny appearance of truths; a rigorous polemic against the tedious nominalist-historicist materialism of our day; and a phenomenology every bit as impressive as Badiou's justly celebrated ontology." - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal194
Table Of ContentI. Formal Theory of the Subject II. Great Logic 1: The Transcendental III. Great Logic 2: The Object IV. Great Logic 3: The Relation V. The Four Forms of Change VI. Theories of Points VII. What is a Body? Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
SynopsisLogics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. The radical recasting of ontology in Being and Event is followed and complemented here by a thoroughgoing transformation in our very understanding of logic, conceived as a theory not of being but of appearing. Unafraid to resurrect and reinvent the classical themes of philosophy, Badiou gives new meaning to concepts such as object, body and relation, mobilising them in arresting studies that range from the architectural planning of Brasilia to contemporary astronomy, and confronting himself with towering philosophical counterparts (Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze). The book culminates in an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.
LC Classification NumberB2430.B273
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