Politics of Logic
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A01=Paul Livingston
Artifi Cial Languages
Author_Paul Livingston
Badiou's Decision
Badiou's Interpretation
Badiou's Sense
Badiou’s Decision
Badiou’s Interpretation
Badiou’s Sense
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Category=QDTL
Category=QDTS
cation
CH
computational theory philosophy
Constructible Universe
Defi Nable
ection
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ers
Fi Delity
Fl Oating Signifi Ers
formal logic in political communities
Heyting Algebras
infi
Infi Nite Sets
Mathematical Set Theory
metalogic analysis
nite
oating
ontology and political theory
paradox
paradoxes in mathematics
Paradoxical Element
Power Set
Power Set Axiom
Power Set Operation
refl
RFM.
Russell Set
Russell's Paradox
russells
Russell’s Paradox
Set
set theory foundations
signifi
structuralism and analytic philosophy
Timeless
Transcendental Index
Violate
Wittgenstein's Invocation
Wittgenstein’s Invocation
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- ISBN 9781138016767
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Paul M. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He writes on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy, both analytic and continental. His previous books are: Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness (Cambridge, 2004) and Philosophy and the Vision of Language (Routledge, 2008).
