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The Politics of Logic - Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism (Paperback)
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The Politics of Logic - Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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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 argues that the
results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel,
Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and
limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic
thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the
nature of political communities and their development and
transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical
structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative
theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical
change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as
the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida,
Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a
formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and
structure of political communities. These readings, along with
readings of Parmenides and Plato, show 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.
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