Theoretical Writings

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event, also published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series. Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

• Editor's NoteAuthor's PrefacePart I. Mathematics is Ontology1. Mathematics and Philosophy2. Philosophy and Mathematics3. The Question of Being 4. TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics5. The Being of Number6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities7. Spinoza¹s Closed OntologyPart II. The Subtraction of Truth8. The Event as Trans-Being9. On Subtraction10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable11. Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology12. Eight Theses on the Universal13. Politics as a Truth ProcedurePart III. Logics of Appearance14. Being and Appearance15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance16. The Transcendental17. Hegel and the Whole18. Language, Thought, PoetryNotesPostfaceIndex

Theoretical Writings provides an overview of Badiou’s major concepts, including being, the event and truth, and draws on unpublished manuscripts…What makes Badiou a challenging figure is his insistence on the irreducible multiplicity of truths, encountered between philosophy, and science, art, politics and love.