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Logics of Worlds (Being and Event, 2) [Hardcover]

Alain Badiou , Alberto Toscano
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May 19, 2009
Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Fifteen years after Badiou's groundbreaking 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.

Appearing in French for the first time in 2006, this hugely important new book is set to make a significant and controversial contribution to contemporary philosophical thought. This brand new translation will make available to an English-speaking audience for the first time a book that is essential reading for Badiou's considerable following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental philosophy.


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"This time it's true; this really IS the book we have been waiting for. Since the publication of his magisterial Being and Event, we have been impatient to see what could not be foreseen: the way worlds look, according to Badiou. Logics of Worlds delivers a powerful theory of the uncanny appearance of truths; a rigorous polemic against the tedious nominalist-historicist materialism of our day; and a phenomenology every bit as impressive as Badiou's justly celebrated ontology." - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA



... [provides] a comprehensive understanding of the French author's philosophical views... Responding to the problems raised in postmodern French thought, Alain Badiou's book offers an original rational scenario of interpreting them in a new key. (, )

About the Author

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is a lecturer 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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  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum Pub Group; 1 edition (May 19, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0826494706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826494702
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 2 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #645,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Badiou At His Clearest January 11, 2010
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There is a line in 'Logics of Worlds' that is as astonishing as it is clear, delineating in a precise form the problematic that Badiou has attempted to tackle throughout his philosophical engagements. What Badiou has attempted to do, through the use of mathematic writing, is extricate thought from the correlationist snare of 'co-propriation', the subject-object dyad that has confined thinking to the situational confines of time and locality. In short, he has attempted to produce two concepts that, while separate, entertain a relation with one another- an objectless subject and a subjectless object. This is the book that illuminates the import of 'Being and Event' while re-evaluating/updating some of its foundational axioms. Read alongside 'Theory of the Subject', it establishes, in programmatic fashion, the formal framework of a 'materialist dialectic' that forces an exit out of post-structuralism's multiple impasses.

While preserving many of post-structuralism's Heideggerean insights- being is invariably inscribed in a world, and this world is invariably governed by a transcendental logic that structures/orders its modes of appearance- Badiou refuses to accord them any primacy whatsoever. In contradistinction to those who posit the a priori nature of transcendental correlation, which subjects objectivity to the mediation of language, consciousness and so on, Badiou follows Meillasoux in constructing a realist theory of the object that locates logicality in the world itself, free from any conscious percipient. This, as Badiou makes clear, is the intra-worldly logic of the object as such, extricated from its relation to the transcendental subject.
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32 of 46 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars an admirable sequel to 'Being and Event' August 23, 2009
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I generally find reviews of books that simply recapitulate what the book contains distasteful--I usually try to censor myself from exuberently ejaculating about the books I like and only write reviews when I have something pithy and useful to say about a book that hasn't already been said. Reviews on Amazon should give clear indications as to why one should (or perhaps shouldn't) read the book in question... Having said that, I note with disappointment that concerning this truly monumental work, 'Logics of Worlds', there is a paucity of useful descriptive material to discern what this book is about and why one should read it. In the interest of closing that gap, I offer these few (perhaps inadequate) thoughts.

Of course, the effort of (perhaps) convincing others to read this book is handicapped from the start, as this book is truly a philosophical sequel to Being and Event. As the other reviewer has correctly (though obliquely) noted, if you have not read 'Being and Event' much of 'Logics of Worlds' may remain obscure. Thus, the reviewer of 'Logics of Worlds' is in a double bind. Either the potential reader HAS already read 'Being and Event', is already familiar with Badiou's work and thus already knows whether or not they find his thought worth pursuing, and thus knows whether or not they want to read this book (the only thing to add here is that 'Logics of Worlds' is as central to Badiou's work as 'Being and Event', and if you are serious about understanding him, you have to read it). On the other hand, if one has not already read 'Being and Event', the most useful advice to be given is to go read that book first.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Service May 28, 2013
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This was purchased as a gift. The recipient was very pleased with the selection of this text. He will be using it to further his research on Badiou before entering Graduate School.
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5.0 out of 5 stars On logics/worlds-- June 6, 2009
Format:Hardcover
a Work of monstrous import but without reading his Being and Event, logics of worlds is pure cypher--
so, assuming fluency: theory of point, bodies, formalism of the subject, distributivity, antonic worlds, real change etc.
indefinitely extend (extensity) and vitalize his programme:

Materialist Dialectic-- "there are only bodies and languages, except that there are truths!"

freely dis-coursing on His Axiomatic-set theory, 'artifactual philosophy', historical situationalism etc. he sets about lobotomizing the obscure and reactive among us. he remains faithful to his previous iterations while extending it infinitely. stylistically he combines poetics and patient enumeration with incredulous force.
closest to T.O.E. (theory of pas-tout: the 'except that' or everything).

treat this book with proper Fear.
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