Explores the history and significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. This book traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent proje
Explores the history and significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical r...
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the...
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalo...
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the...
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalo...
