The Mathematical in Heidegger and Badiou

ISBN-13: 9783639134995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 56 str.

Dylan Wade

Opis

This work traces the historical development ofsubjectivity from its skeptical foundation inDescartes to Alain Badious subject as fidelity totruth. Heidegger criticizes modernity, defined asthe merging of the metaphysical and themathematical, for apprehending the relationshipbetween man and world in only one way, asthings. I hope show that this development does notderive from the mathematical alone, but fromthe project of objects against an objectivebackground secured in an I-pole, further advanced byKants transcendental reflection of thething-in-itself over this project. I do this by followingAlain Badious assessment of Zermelo-Fraenkelsaxiomatic set theory, a particular mathematical modelthat self-destructs, meaning it cannot becomeabsolute or dogmatic. If we can dissociate in ourordinary language claims that utilize transcendentalreasoning from claims concerning mathematicalprojection based on speculation alone, perhaps wemight find some basis to make existential claimsindependent of perspective, or subjectivism.

O autorze

Dylan Wade was born in Athens, Georgia, in 1984. He moved to
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1987 and has remained in the area
since. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Tulane
University in 2006, and his Master of Arts from Louisiana State
University in 2008.