Number and Numbers
The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number?In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number theory. Drawing on the mathematic…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-3878-2
- EAN: 9780745638782
- Produktnummer: 3678985
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.5 cm 503 g
- Gewicht: 503
Über den Autor
Alain Badiou is Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.
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