This book will help you to understand Badiou's central concepts, the philosophical relation between Badiou and Plato and will rethink the importance of Badiou's 'Platonic' claim 'the only education is an education by truths'.
Cover -- Half Title -- ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY -- Title -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TRANSLATORS' INTRODUCTION: THE CATEGORIAL IMPERATIVE -- PART ONE TOPOS, OR LOGICS OF ONTO-LOGY: AN INTRODUCTION FOR PHILOSOPHERS -- PART TWO BEING THERE: MATHEMATICS OF THE TRANSC…
A reconsideration of the philosophical destiny of education What is education? This volume thinks through this question from a range of perspectives unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it will give …
The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant number of references to each other's work, such references are often simply cri…
The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant number of references to each other's work, such references are often simply cri…