Table of Contents

Editor's Note Author's Preface Part I. Mathematics is Ontology 1. Mathematics and Philosophy 2. Philosophy and Mathematics 3. The Question of Being 4. TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics 5. The Being of Number 6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities 7. Spinoza¹s Closed Ontology Part II. The Subtraction of Truth 8. The Event as Trans-Being 9. On Subtraction 10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable 11. Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology 12. Eight Theses on the Universal 13. Politics as a Truth Procedure Part III. Logics of Appearance 14. Being and Appearance 15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance 16. The Transcendental 17. Hegel and the Whole 18. Language, Thought, Poetry Notes Postface Indices

About the Author

Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021). Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

Reviews

"'Alain Badiou enacts a return to full-blown philosophy, striking as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes. His work aims at the very heart of politically correct radical intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life! - Slavoj Zizek"