Diagrammatic Immanence
Subtitle: Category Theory and Philosophy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781474404174
Subjects: Spinoza, benedictus de, 1632-1677; Peirce, charles s. (charles sanders), 1839-1914; Deleuze, gilles, 1925-1995; Philosophy
Description: "This book integrates insights from Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics and Deleuze's philosophy of difference in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory. Category theory reveals deep structural connections among logic, topology and a variety of different areas of mathematics, and it provides constructive and rigorous concepts for investigating how diagrams work. Gangle offers a basic introduction to the methods of category theory from a philosophical and diagrammatic perspective allowing philosophers with little or no mathematical training to come to grips with this important field. This coordination of immanent metaphysics, diagrammatic method and category theoretical mathematics opens a new horizon for contemporary thought"--Back cover.