$38.50 (Paperback book / Re.Press / ISBN:9780980305241)
Mathematics Of Novelty
The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics tackles the issue of philosophical materialism in Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, enquiring after the source and nature of the ‘novelty’ that both philosophers of multiplicity claim to discover in the objective world. In this characteristically erudite analysis, Sam Gillespie maintains that where novelty in Deleuze is ultimately located in a Leibnizian affirmation of the world, for Badiou, the new, which is the coming-to-be of a truth, must be located exterior to the ‘situation’, i.e. in the void. Following a lucid presentation of the central concepts of Badiou’s philosophy as they relate to the problem of novelty (mathematics as ontology, truth, the subject and the event), Gillespie identifies a significant problem in Badiou’s conception of the subject which he suggests can be answered by way of a supplementary framework derived from Lacan’s concept of anxiety. Gillespie’s intent to illuminate the relation of philosophy to the four truth procedures (art, love, science, politics) leads him to the polemical conclusion that, as a transformative rather than descriptive or reflective project, Badiou’s philosophy ultimately reclaims the power of the negative from the positivity and pure productiveness of Deleuze’s system, thereby freeing thought from the limits set by experience.
Continental Philosophy
Psyche Inventions Of The Other Volume II
$39.95 (Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press )
No extra details available for this item. More »
Mathematics Of Novelty
$38.50 (Paperback book / Re.Press )
The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics tackles the issue of philosophical materialism in Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, enquiring after the source and nature of the ‘novelty’ that both philosophers... More »
Dis Enclosure The Deconstruction Of Christianity
$32.95 (Paperback book / Fordham Univ Pr )
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit�notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works ... More »
Spirit Of The Age Hegel And The Fate Of Thinking
$38.50 (Paperback book / Re.Press )
‘It belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.’ (Hegel’s Lectures on...
Erotic Phenomenon
$29.95 (Paperback book / Univ. Of Chicago Pr. )
While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word philosophy m... More »