Theoretical Writings

Brief Description: Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Biographical Note: Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004). Table of Contents: List of SourcesEditors' NoteAuthor's PrefaceI. Ontology is Mathematics1. Mathematics and Philosophy: The Grand Style and the Little Style2. Philosophy and Mathematics: Infinity and the End of Romanticism3. The Question of Being Today4. Platonism and Mathematical Ontology5. The Being of Number6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities7. Spinoza's Closed OntologyII. The Subtraction of Truth8. The Event as Trans-Being9. On Subtraction10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable11. Kant's Subtractive Ontology12. Eight Theses on the Universal13. Politics as Truth ProcedureIII. Logics of Appearance14. Being and Appearance15. Notes Towards a Thinking of Appearance16. The Transcendental17. Hegel and the Whole18. Language, Thought, PoetryNotesIndex of ConceptsIndex of Names

Contributor Bio:  Badiou, Alain Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Contributor Bio:  Toscano, Alberto Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004). Contributor Bio:  Brassier, Ray Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.