Badiou's Being and event
Subtitle: a reader's guide
By: Christopher Norris.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780826498281; 9780826498298
Subjects: Badiou, Alain; Ontology; Set theory; Events (Philosophy)
Description: Alain Badiou's Being and Event is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely considered to have re-shaped the character and set new terms for the future development of philosophy in France and elsewhere. This book has been written very much with a view to clarifying Badiou's complex and demanding work for non-specialist readers. It offers guidance on philosophical and intellectual context, key themes, reading the text, reception and influence; and further reading
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Context; title: Overview of themes; title: Part I: Being : multiple and void : Plato/cantor; title: Part II: Being : excess, state of the situation, one/multiple, whole/parts, or; title: Part III: Being : nature and infinity : Heidegger/Galileo; title: Part IV: The event : history and ultra-one; title: Part V: The event : intervention and fidelity : Pascal/choice; title: Holderlin/deduction; title: Part VI: Quantity and knowledge : the discernible(or constructible) : Leibniz/Gadel; title: Part VII: The generic : indiscernible and truth; title: The event / P.J. Cohen; title: Part VIII: Forcing : truth and the subject : beyond Lacan.