Logics of Worlds

Being and Event II

Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing
24 January 2019

Philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: logic

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

Logics 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'.

By: Alain Badiou
Translated by: Alberto Toscano
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781350043015
ISBN 10: 135004301X
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 24 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

Reviews for Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II

Arguably 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 *