@book {80875, title = {Being and event}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Continuum}, organization = {Continuum}, abstract = {

This translation originally published: 2005. Includes appendices, dictionary, and notes. Being and Event is the centrepiece of Alain Badiou{\textquoteright}s oeuvre; it is the work that grounds his reputation as one of France {\textquoteright}s most original philosophers. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou{\textquoteright}s groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. This book makes the scope and aim of Badiou{\textquoteright}s whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou{\textquoteright}s significance for contemporary philosophy. In Being and Event, Badiou anchors this project by recasting the European philosophical tr.

Part I. Being : multiple and void : Plato/Cantor {\textendash} pt.

II. Being : excess, state of the situation, one/multiple, whole/parts, or E/C? {\textendash} pt.

III. Being : nature and infinity : Heidegger/Galileo {\textendash} pt.

IV. The event : history and ultra-one {\textendash} pt.

V. The event : intervention and fidelity : Pascal/choice; Holderlin/deduction {\textendash} pt.

VI. Quantity and knowledge : the discernible (or constructible) : Leibniz/Godel {\textendash} pt.

VII. The generic : indiscernible and truth : the event {\textendash} P.J. Cohen {\textendash} pt.

VIII. Forcing : truth and the subject : beyond Lacan.

}, isbn = {0826458319}, author = {Alain Badiou} }