Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II

by Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano (Translator)

Overview

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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350043015
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/24/2019
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.45(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

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

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

Editorial Reviews

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.” —CHOICE

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