Descripción de contraportada
The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number?
In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number theory. Drawing on the mathematical theory of surreal numbers, he develops a unified theory of Number as a particular form of being, an infinite expanse to which our access remains limited. This understanding of Number as being harbours important philosophical truths about the structure of the world in which we live.
In Badious view, only by rigorously thinking through Number can philosophy offer us some hope of breaking through the dense and apparently impenetrable capitalist fabric of numerical relations. For this will finally allow us to point to that which cannot be numbered: the possibility of an event that would deliver us from our unthinking subordination of number.
Detalles
- Título Number and Numbers
- Autor Alain Badiou
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Polity Press
- Fecha de publicación 2008-05-19
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780745638782 / 0745638783
- Peso 1.11 libras (0.50 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.24 x 6.22 x 0.97 pulgadas (23.47 x 15.80 x 2.46 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Number concept, Numeration
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008297975
- Dewey Decimal Code 510.1
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