Briefings on existence
Subtitle: a short treatise on transitory ontology
By: Alain Badiou ; translated, edited and with an introduction by Norman Madarasz.
Contributors: Madarasz, Norman.
Series: Suny series, intersections -- philosophy and critical theory; Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780791468036; 9780791468043
Subjects: Ontology
Notes: Translation of: Court traité d'ontologie transitoire.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: God is dead; title: The question of being today; title: Mathematics as a thought; title: The event as trans-being; title: Deleuzes vitalist ontology; title: Spinozas closed ontology; title: Platonism and mathematical ontology; title: The aristotelian orientation and logic; title: Logic, philosophy, linguistic turn; title: First remarks on the concept of topos; title: First provisional theses on logic; title: The being of number; title: Kants subtractive ontology; title: Group, category, subject; title: Being and appearing.