Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.
This book continues Alain Badiou's project to posit an integral link between mathematics and ontology. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, Briefings on Existence engages the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and outlines how the philosophical inquiry into Being and existence converges with the possible world topology of category theory. Set against the background of a multiplication of gods that can be declared dead (the gods of religions, metaphysics, and poetry), Badiou argues that the extension of these events has fallen short of accomplishing its collective promise, but can be achieved through the mathematical understanding of ontology. After several remarkable decades of theoretical invention, French philosophy stands at a crossroads, and Badiou's egalitarian materialism is one of its strongest calls forward.
| ISBN: | 9780791468043 |
| Publication date: | 16th March 2006 |
| Author: | Alain Badiou |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: logic Set theory Literary theory |
Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.
This book continues Alain Badiou's project to posit an integral link between mathematics and ontology. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, Briefings on Existence engages the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and outlines how the philosophical inquiry into Being and existence converges with the possible world topology of category theory. Set against the background of a multiplication of gods that can be declared dead (the gods of religions, metaphysics, and poetry), Badiou argues that the extension of these events has fallen short of accomplishing its collective promise, but can be achieved through the mathematical understanding of ontology. After several remarkable decades of theoretical invention, French philosophy stands at a crossroads, and Badiou's egalitarian materialism is one of its strongest calls forward.
Briefings on Existence features in the following genres: Philosophy: logic, Set theory, Literary theory
Briefings on Existence is available in Paperback
Briefings on Existence was written by Alain Badiou and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Briefings on Existence has 202 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory series