Badiou's Number: A Critique of Mathematics as Ontology

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Critical Inquiry 37 (4):583-614 (2011)
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When an English translation of Being and Event appeared in 2005, Alain Badiou took the opportunity to reminisce about the initial French publication some twenty years before: “at that moment I was quite aware of having written a ‘great’ book of philosophy.” He located that greatness in four “affirmations” and one “radical thesis.”

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