Mathematics of the Transcendental: Onto-logy and being-there - Hardcover

Badiou, Alain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441189246 ISBN 13: 9781441189240

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from Set Theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements of his greater and transcendental logics as articulated in his magnum opus, Logics of Worlds. This important book combines both his elaboration of the disjunctive synthesis between ontology and onto-logy (the discourses of being as such and being-appearing) from the perspective of Category Theory and the categorial basis of his philosophical conception of 'being there'.

Hitherto unpublished in either French or English, Mathematics of the Transcendental provides Badiou's readers with a much-needed complete elaboration of his understanding and use of Category Theory. The book is an essential aid to understanding the mathematical and logical basis of his theory of appearing as elaborated in Logics of Worlds and other works and is essential reading for his many followers.

About this title

Book Description:

Alain Badiou, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary philosophers, provides readers with a complete elaboration of his understanding and use of Category Theory.

About the Author:

Alex Ling is Research Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1441189246
• ISBN 13: 9781441189240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296