Alain badiou articles of incorporation

          In Being and Event, Alain Badiou disconnects the infinite from the One and the Absolute, thus recasting the basis from which to craft a new theory of generic.

        1. In Being and Event, Alain Badiou disconnects the infinite from the One and the Absolute, thus recasting the basis from which to craft a new theory of generic.
        2. The present collection brings together in a convenient form the seminal articles in the philosophy of mathematics by these and other major.
        3. By placing Alain Badiou's philosophy under the sign of thinking infinity, the splendor, originality and radicality of the way he relates philosophy and math.
        4. This thesis analyzes Alain Badiou's ontology in a utopian framework.
        5. Badiou presents his philosophy of real happiness as a philosophy of desire.

          6. By placing Alain Badiou's philosophy under the sign of thinking infinity, the splendor, originality and radicality of the way he relates philosophy and math....

           

          &#x;THE SUBJECT OF ART&#x;
          Alain Badiou

          My Father was accustomed to say, "we must begin by the beginning."  So, I must begin this lecture about the subject of art by its beginning.  But, what is this beginning?  I think we have to begin with the oldest question&#;the question of being, the question of being as being, of being qua being.  What is being?  What are we saying when we say something is, something of art is&#x;?  Something of art is a joy forever, for example.  What are we saying?  I begin by a fundamental distinction between three levels of the signification of being.

          First, when I say something is, I just say something is a pure multiplicity.

          'Something is' and 'something is a multiplicity' is the same sentence.  So, it's a level of being qua being.  Being as such is pure multiplicity.  And the thinking of a pure multiplicity is finally mathematics.

          The second level is when we are sa