The politics of logic : Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the consequences of formalism / Paul M. Livingston.
By: Livingston, Paul M.
Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xvi, 394 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415891912; 0415891914.Subject(s): Badiou, Alain | Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 | Political science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 320.01Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index.
Introduction: an inquiry into forms of life -- Origins of paradoxico-criticism: structuralism and analytic philosophy -- Deleuze, Plato, and the paradoxes of sense -- Derrida and formalism: formalizing the undecidable -- Wittgenstein and Parmenides -- Wittgenstein and Turing -- Formalism and force: the many worlds of Badiou -- Badiou vs. paradoxico-criticism -- Paradoxico: critique of Badiou -- The politics of logic: critical and practical consequences.