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Theoretical Writings
Contributor(s): Badiou, Alain (Author), Brassier, Ray (Editor), Toscano, Alberto (Editor)
ISBN: 1474234119     ISBN-13: 9781474234115
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Essays
Dewey: 194
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 312 pages
 
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Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.

Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Contributor Bio(s): 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).Brassier, Ray: - Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.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.