Being and Event

Continuum

2005

xxxiii, 526 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-497)

9780826458315

eing : multiple and void : Plato/Cantor -- Being : excess, state of the situation, one/multiple, whole/parts, [belonging/inclusion]? -- Being : nature and infinity : Heidegger/Galileo -- The event : history and ultra-one -- The event : intervention and fidelity : Pascal/choice; Holderlin/deduction -- Quantity and knowledge : the discernible (or constructible) : Leibniz/Godel -- The generic : indiscernible and truth : the event -- P.J. Cohen -- Forcing : truth and the subject : beyond Lacan

'Being and Event' is a translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus. The book is organised in a careful, precise and novel manner, reflecting the philosophical rigour of Badiou's thought. This English language edition includes a new preface

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