Research Catalog

Title

Briefings on existence : a short treatise on transitory ontology / Alain Badiou ; translated, edited and with an introduction by Norman Madarasz.

Author

Badiou, Alain.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Madarasz, Norman.

Description

xii, 190 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Suny series, intersections-- philosophy and critical theory

Uniform Title

• Court traité d'ontologie transitoire. English
• Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)

Alternative Title

Court traité d'ontologie transitoire.

Subject

• Ontology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.

Contents

Prologue: God is dead -- The question of being today -- Mathematics as a thought -- The event as trans-being -- Deleuzes vitalist ontology -- Spinozas closed ontology -- Platonism and mathematical ontology -- The aristotelian orientation and logic -- Logic, philosophy, linguistic turn -- First remarks on the concept of topos -- First provisional theses on logic -- The being of number -- Kants subtractive ontology -- Group, category, subject -- Being and appearing.

Call Number

JFE 06-5379

ISBN

• 0791468038 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791468046 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005033878
• 9780791468036
• 9780791468043

OCLC

62421112

Author

Badiou, Alain.

Title

Briefings on existence : a short treatise on transitory ontology / Alain Badiou ; translated, edited and with an introduction by Norman Madarasz.

Imprint

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Series

Suny series, intersections-- philosophy and critical theory

Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.

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Added Author

Madarasz, Norman.

Other Standard Identifier

9780791468036

9780791468043

Research Call Number

JFE 06-5379