Alexander W Diones
Biographic Data
| ID | 7533020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander W Diones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander W |
| FAMILY NAME | Diones |
| SIGNATURE | DIONES A W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On Logic and the Theory of Ensembles
Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology is famously obscure and disavows any political stakes. This paper begins from the suspicion that for such an avowedly communist philosopher, the question of collectivity posed by set theory cannot be unrelated to the question of political collectives. I argue that Badiou’s turn to mathematics directly responds to what he diagnoses as two problems of representing political will: institutional dilution on the on…
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On Logic and the Theory of Ensembles
Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology is famously obscure and disavows any political stakes. This paper begins from the suspicion that for such an avowedly communist philosopher, the question of collectivity posed by set theory cannot be unrelated to the question of political collectives. I argue that Badiou’s turn to mathematics directly responds to what he diagnoses as two problems of representing political will: institutional dilution on the on…
Collective action (1 work) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Formalism (music (1 work) · Immediacy (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Marxism and Critical Theory (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)