Badiou's Being and event and the mathematics of set theory /

"Alain Badiou's Being and Event continues to impact philosophical investigations into the question of Being. By exploring the central role set theory plays in this influential work, Burhanuddin Baki presents the first extended study of Badiou's use of mathematics in Being and Event. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baki, Burhanuddin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Subjects:	Badiou, Alain. > Etre et l'événement. Set theory. Ontology. Events (Philosophy) PHILOSOPHY > Logic.

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List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsNotes on Abbreviations, Citations and Translations Introduction 1. Mathematics = Ontology 2. Ontology of Axiomatic Set Theory 3. Metaontology of Situations and Presentation 4. Metaontology of the State and Representation 5. Ontology and Metaontology of the Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers6. Ontology and Metaontology of the Constructible 7. Ontology of Forcing and Generic Sets 8. Metaontology of the Subject, Truth, the Event and InterventionEpilogue Works Cited.