Abstract
The two works made available here for the first time in either English or French – Topos, or Logics of Onto-Logy: An Introduction for Philosophers and Being There: mathematics of the Transcendental – represented Badiou’s early forays into category theory (and in particular the sub-branch of topos theory) from two vastly different philosophical angles. While the former comes hot on the heels of the publication of his first ‘great book’, Being and Event, the latter captures in painstaking detail the conceptual development of what would ultimately become the belated ‘sequel’ to this foundational work, Logics of Worlds. As such, they catalogue Badiou’s philosophico-mathematical trajectory over a period of nearly two decades – a period of astonishing philosophical and artistic productivity on Badiou’s part – from his enthusiastic embrace of set theory as the theory of pure multiplicity and consequent assertion that ‘mathematics is ontology’, up to his parallel claim that ‘logic is appearing’ together with his difficult excursions through the intricacies of topos theory.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Mathematics of the Transcendental |
Editors | Alex Ling, A. J. (Adam John) Bartlett |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Pages | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781441150431 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781441189240 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |