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What is Being And Event about?
A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus. Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou's significance for contemporary philosophy. Badiou draws upon and is fully engaged with the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards; Being and Event deals with such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, Heidegger and Lacan.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alain Badiou
- Publisher
- Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826495297
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (773 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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