Badiou's Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

Brassier, Ray

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“…For is it not precisely the appeal to an absolute (theological) cleavage between two fundamentally different kinds of history, natural history and cultural history, or hyletic history and noetic history, that Darwin revoked? 101 Along similar lines, Smith states:…”

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“…44 This maneuver is reflective of his general hostility toward naturalism, organicism, or vitalism. On the basis of what Brassier aptly characterizes as Badiou's ''all-too-ideological antipathy to biology,'' 45 Badiou wishes to deny these disciplines centered on living nature not only ontological import but also, through incredibly debatable assertions, a standing as sciences.…”

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Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Johnston

2008

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Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Johnston

2008

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“…Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of Badiou's philosophy is his equation of ontology and mathematics (see Brassier, 2005;Hallward, 2003;Smith, 2004). Badiou is not claiming that mathematics can somehow express or represent`being' better than any other approachöit is precisely this mental image of representation that he is rejecting.…”

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Thinking the Event: Badiou's Philosophy of the Event and the Example of the Paris Commune

Bassett

2008

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The problem of theorising the ‘event’ as a moment of major time–space transformation has become a focus of enquiry in philosophy, history, and the social sciences. In this paper I explore the theory of the event to be found in the recent work of Alain Badiou, relating his ideas to the particular case of the 1871 Paris Commune. I focus on particular problems with his approach, using an alternative formulation of the event found in the work of William Sewell Jr, which for purposes of comparison and critical debate I also relate to the event of the Paris Commune. I conclude by raising and discussing a range of wider issues that arise from the comparison.

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“…For more on The Concept of Model , see Livingston (forthcoming). On Badiou’s early conception of mathematics, see Brassier (2005).…”

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Badiou and the Politics of Form

Livingston¹

2012

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In this essay, I explore Alain Badiou's longstanding project of theorizing political situations and political transformation through the analysis of forms and formalisms. This amounts, I argue, to a politics of form that draws on the thought of Sartre, Althusser, and Lacan, but offers new alternatives for political thought and action today. In particular, Badiou's rigorous consideration of forms, which draws on mathematics, model theory, set theory, and category theory, allows him to theorize political change in a way that avoids the errors of existing critical approaches. Central to this consideration are Badiou's theory (Being and Event) of what he calls the event, which summons itself into existence by its own naming of itself or auto-nomination, and his recent theory of the plurality of worlds and their possible transformation in Logics of Worlds. I also discuss Badiou's recent treatment of the 20th century project of formalization in The Century, arguing that Badiou's analysis here offers useful terms for the political thought of the present situation.

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Badiou's Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

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Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Thinking the Event: Badiou's Philosophy of the Event and the Example of the Paris Commune

Badiou and the Politics of Form

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