Arguably Europe’s most influential living philosopher, Badiou engages here with art, poetry, and history in daring ways. Supplementing arguments made in his magnum opus, he challenges readers to follow him on an arduous journey into a complex “theory of the worlds” and a materialist dialectic foregrounding truths and events, subjects and points … It is a reconstruction, a far-reaching, incisive, compelling way of reinterpreting the world. Badiou’s fervent plea, in the conclusion, to “live for an Idea” should be heard. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze – Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.
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Translator's Note
Preface
Technical Note
Book I: Formal Theory of the Subject (Meta-Physics)
Book II: Great Logic 1: The Transcendental
Book III: Great Logic 2: The Object
Book IV. Great Logic 3: The Relation
Book V: The Four Forms of Change
Book VI: Theories of Points
Book VII: What is a Body?
Conclusion: What Is It to Live?

Notes, Commentaries and Digressions
Statements, Dictionaries, Bibliography, Iconography and Index

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New to the Bloomsbury Revelations series, Logics of Worlds is the follow-up to Alain Badiou's masterwork, Being and Event.
The sequel to Alain Badiou's Being and Event now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series
Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Carol Adams, Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski, Susan Strange and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350043015
Publisert
2019-01-24
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
42 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
600

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.

Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).