Multiplicity and Ontology in Deleuze and Badiou

ISBN-13: 9783319768366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 189 str.

Becky Vartabedian

Opis

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many?

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Lower Layers

Chapter 2: Engagements, 1976-1997: History of a Misunderstanding

Chapter 3: Structure: Multiplicity and Multiple in Deleuze and Badiou

Chapter 4: Procedures: One, Multiple, Subtraction

Chapter 5: Re-Engagements

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Multiplicity, Ontology, Deleuze, Badiou

O autorze

Becky Vartabedian is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, USA

Blurb

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many?

 Becky Vartabedian examines major statements of multiplicity by Deleuze and Badiou to assess the structure of multiplicity as ontological ground or foundation, and the procedures these accounts prescribe for understanding one in relation to multiplicity.  

Written in a clear, engaging style, Vartabedian introduces readers to Deleuze and Badiou’s key ontological commitments to the mathematical resources underpinning their accounts of multiplicity and one, and situates these as a conversation unfolding amid political and intellectual transformations.