Main entry:

Gillespie, Sam.

Title & Author:

The Mathematics of Novelty : Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics.

Publication:

Melbourne : Re.press, 2008.

Description:

1 online resource (174 pages)

Series:

Anamnesis

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index.
Front Cover; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 -- Conditions of the New: Deleuze and Badiou; 2 -- Nothing That Is; 3 -- Approximately Infinite Universe; 4 -- Beyond Being: Badiou's Doctrine of Truth; 5 -- Giving Form to Its Own Existence: Anxiety and the Subject of Truth; 6 -- From Reflection to Transformation: What is Philosophy?; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
English.

Summary:

Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.

Resources:
EBSCOhost
ProQuest Ebook Central
Online Resource

ISBN:

9780980544084 (electronic bk.)
0980544084 (electronic bk.)
9780980305241
0980305241

Subject:

Badiou, Alain.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Ontology.
Materialism.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy.
Mathematics.
Ontologie.
Matérialisme.
Métaphysique.
Philosophie.
Mathématiques.
ontology (metaphysics)
metaphysics.
philosophy.
materialism (philosophical movement)
Philosophy & Religion.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Anamnesis.