by Alain Badiou. When people today are not making an effort to believe something else, says Badiou (École Normale Supérieure and Collége International de Philosophie, Paris), they believe that there are only bodies and languages, a conviction he names democratic materialism. He examines it from the perspectives of the formal metaphysical theory; the greater logics of the transcendental, the object, and relation; the four forms of change; the theory of points; and what a body is. His conclusion asks what it is to live. Logiques des mondes was published by Editions du Seuil in 2006, and is translated here by Alberto Roscano (sociology, U. of London). To some extent, it is a response to criticism of his 1988 Being and Event. --Publisher (Check Catalog)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Logics of worlds : being and event, 2
by Alain Badiou. When people today are not making an effort to believe something else, says Badiou (École Normale Supérieure and Collége International de Philosophie, Paris), they believe that there are only bodies and languages, a conviction he names democratic materialism. He examines it from the perspectives of the formal metaphysical theory; the greater logics of the transcendental, the object, and relation; the four forms of change; the theory of points; and what a body is. His conclusion asks what it is to live. Logiques des mondes was published by Editions du Seuil in 2006, and is translated here by Alberto Roscano (sociology, U. of London). To some extent, it is a response to criticism of his 1988 Being and Event. --Publisher (Check Catalog)
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