Title:
Being and event / Alain Badiou ; translated by Oliver Feltham.
Author:
Badiou, Alain.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.
Call Number:
B2430 .B273 E8713 2007
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780826495297
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 526 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Editions du Seuil, 1988; this English language translation: Continuum, 2005.
Contents:
Being : multiple and void : Plato/Cantor -- Being : excess, state of the situation, one/multiple, whole/parts, or E/C? -- Being : nature and infinity : Heidegger/Galileo -- The event : history and ultra-one -- The event : intervention and fidelity : Pascal/choice; Hölderlin/deduction -- Quantity and knowledge : the discernible (or constructible) : Leibniz/Gödel -- The generic : indiscernible and truth : the event - P.J. Cohen -- Forcing : truth and the subject : beyond Lacan.
Uniform Title:
Etre et l'événement. English
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