Theoretical Writings

Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. <br/> <i><br/>Theoretical Writings </i>presents in Badiou's own words 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry psychoanalysis and radical politics. <i>Theoretical Writings</i> is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.