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Book SynopsisLogics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou''s masterpiece,
Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by
Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to ''live for an Idea''.
Trade ReviewArguably Europe’s most influential living philosopher, Badiou engages here with art, poetry, and history in daring ways. Supplementing arguments made in his magnum opus, he challenges readers to follow him on an arduous journey into a complex “theory of the worlds” and a materialist dialectic foregrounding truths and events, subjects and points … It is a reconstruction, a far-reaching, incisive, compelling way of reinterpreting the world. Badiou’s fervent plea, in the conclusion, to “live for an Idea” should be heard. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsTranslator's Note Preface Technical Note Book I: Formal Theory of the Subject (Meta-Physics) Book II: Great Logic 1: The Transcendental Book III: Great Logic 2: The Object Book IV. Great Logic 3: The Relation Book V: The Four Forms of Change Book VI: Theories of Points Book VII: What is a Body? Conclusion: What Is It to Live? Notes, Commentaries and Digressions Statements, Dictionaries, Bibliography, Iconography and Index
