1st Printing. 617 pages. Published in 2009. The author's sequel to "Being And Event". One of the most important philosophical texts of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Alain Badiou's "Logics of Worlds: Being And Event Volume 2" in a felicitous English translation. The essential completion of his work, which was missing an account of what it means to live in the World. Without this volume, "Being And Event" would not only be incomplete. It would be seriously undermined by the mathematical, constipated, and self-absorbed tendentiousness of Badiou's attempt to unite Continental with British ("Anglo-American") philosophy. "Fifteen years after Badiou's ground-breaking work first appeared in French, the greatest and most influential contemporary French philosopher finally presents his readers with a truly remarkable follow-up, answering many of the questions posed by his critics and continuing the development of his fascinating theories of truth, subject, and event" (Publisher's blurb). Badiou would be another merely (and suddenly) glamorous academic philosopher were it not for the fact that his philosophy is probably the most pragmatic and idealistic at the same time since Marx. He is actually more of a Hegelian than a Marxist. Still, he is profoundly engaged in the idea of the transformation of a situation - which is a Marxist idea - or what he calls the "rupture" that gives birth to an Event. The present volume completes Badiou's Hegelian triad: Being, Event, World. "Culminates in an impassioned plea to live for an Idea". An absolute "must-have" title for Alain Badiou collectors. This title is an important book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALAIN BADIOU AND GILLES DELEUZE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0826494706.

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T�tulo: LOGICS OF WORLDS: BEING AND EVENT: VOLUME 2 - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
Editor: New York City, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2008
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0826494706
ISBN 13: 9780826494702
Encuadernaci�n: Hardcover
Edici�n: 1st Edition.
Estado: As New
Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New
Firmado: no

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Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. The radical recasting of ontology in Being and Event is followed and complemented here by a thoroughgoing transformation in our very understanding of logic, conceived as a theory not of being but of appearing.

Unafraid to resurrect and reinvent the classical themes of philosophy, Badiou gives new meaning to concepts such as object, body and relation, mobilising them in arresting studies that range from the architectural planning of Brasilia to contemporary astronomy, and confronting himself with towering philosophical counterparts (Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze). The book culminates in an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.

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Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the �cole Normale Sup�rieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

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