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.
Editor's Note Author's Preface Part I. Mathematics is Ontology 1. Mathematics and Philosophy 2. Philosophy and Mathematics 3. The Question of Being 4. TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics 5. The Being of Number 6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities 7. Spinoza¹s Closed Ontology Part II. The Subtraction of Truth 8. The Event as Trans-Being 9. On Subtraction 10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable 11. Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology 12. Eight Theses on the Universal 13. Politics as a Truth Procedure Part III. Logics of Appearance 14. Being and Appearance 15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance 16. The Transcendental 17. Hegel and the Whole 18. Language, Thought, Poetry Notes Postface Index
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 including Being and Event, also published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series. Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
Reviews for Theoretical Writings
Theoretical Writings provides an overview of Badiou's major concepts, including being, the event and truth, and draws on unpublished manuscripts...What makes Badiou a challenging figure is his insistence on the irreducible multiplicity of truths, encountered between philosophy, and science, art, politics and love. De Philosophia, 2004
