The Mathematics of Novelty [electronic resource] : Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics
Gillespie, Sam.
Melbourne : re.press,
2008.
Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.
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Front Cover; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 - Conditions of the New: Deleuze and Badiou; 2 - Nothing That Is; 3 - Approximately Infinite Universe; 4 - Beyond Being: Badiou's Doctrine of Truth; 5 - Giving Form to Its Own Existence: Anxiety and the Subject of Truth; 6 - From Reflection to Transformation: What is Philosophy?; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.
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Badiou, Alain.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Mathematics.
Philosophy.
Ontology
Materialism
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Mathematics
Philosophy & Religion
Philosophy