Paul Livingston

The Politics of Logic

Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 shows 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138016767
• ISBN-10: 1138016764
• Artikelnr.: 40051678

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He writes on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy, both analytic and continental. His previous books are: Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness (Cambridge, 2004) and Philosophy and the Vision of Language (Routledge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Methodological Preface I: Introductory 1:
Introduction: An Inquiry into Forms of Life II. Paradoxico-Criticism 2:
Origins of Paradoxico-Criticism: Structuralism and Analytic Philosophy 3:
Deleuze, Plato, and the Paradoxes of Sense 4: Derrida and Formalism:
Formalizing the Undecidable 5: Wittgenstein and Parmenides 6: Wittgenstein
and Turing III: Badiou and the Stakes of Formalism 7: Formalism and Force:
The Many Worlds of Badiou 8: Badiou vs. Paradoxico-Criticism 9: Paradoxico:
Critique of Badiou 10: The Politics of Logic: Critical and Practical
Consequences Notes Bibliography Index