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Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II
Contributor(s): Badiou, Alain (Author), Toscano, Alberto (Translator)
ISBN: 0826494706     ISBN-13: 9780826494702
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $67.32  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2009
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Annotation: Long-awaited sequel to Badiou's best-selling masterpiece, Being and Event.
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 2008036972
Physical Information: 2" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (1.60 lbs) 640 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - French
 
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Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded 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. The radical recasting of ontology in Being and Event is followed and complemented here by a thoroughgoing transformation in our very understanding of logic, conceived as a theory not of being but of appearing.

Unafraid to resurrect and reinvent the classical themes of philosophy, Badiou gives new meaning to concepts such as object, body and relation, mobilising them in arresting studies that range from the architectural planning of Brasilia to contemporary astronomy, and confronting himself with towering philosophical counterparts (Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze). The book culminates in an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.

Contributor Bio(s): Badiou, Alain: - 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.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).