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

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by Usa) Paul Livingston (university Of New Mexico

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Routledge

    • Published

      February 2014

    • Weight

      554g

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

      Today's Price £60.68

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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.

      Specification

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        Routledge

      • Published

        February 2014

      • Weight

        554g

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 22 mm

      • ISBN

        9781138016767

      • ISBN-10

        1138016764

      • Eden Code

        5644579

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      • ISBN: 9781138016767

      • Publisher: Routledge

      • Release Date: February 2014

      • Weight: 554g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 22 mm

      • Eden Code: 5644579

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