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The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

by Usa) Paul Livingston (university Of New Mexico

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.2 cm

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In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.
The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism and Philosophy and the Vision of Language
Philosophy and the Vision of LanguageThe Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    February 2014

  • Weight

    554g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781138016767

  • ISBN-10

    1138016764

  • Eden Code

    5644579

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