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Also available from Continuum Infinite Thought, Alain Badiou (translated by Olver Feltham and Justin Clemens) Dheoretical Writings, Alain Badiou (edited and tansiated by Alberto Toscano and Ray Brasses) BEING AND EVENT Alain Badiou ‘Translated by Oliver Feltham 1 Belonging and inclusion 2 The theorem of the point of excess 3 The void and the excess 4 One, count-as-one, unity, and forming into 8 The Sate, or Metastructute, and the Typology of Being (normality singularity, excrescence) 9 The State of the Hisorico-social Situation 10 Spinoza Part Il Being: Nature and Infinity, Heidegger! Galileo 1 Nature: Poem oF mathere? 12 The Ontological Schema of Natural Multiples and the Non-exstence of Nature 1 The concept of normality: transitive sets 2 Natural multiple: ordinals 3 The play of presentation in natural miles or ordinals 4 Utimatenatuea element (unique atom) 5 An ondinal isthe number ofthat of which i the name 6 Nature does no exist, 15 Anfnity the other, the rule and the Osher 14. The Ontological Decision: “There f some infinty in natural multiples 1 Point of being and operator of passage 2 Succession and limit, 3 “The second existential seal 4 Infinity nally defined 5 The finite, in second place 15 Hegel 1 The Matheme of infinity revisited 2 How can an init be bad? 3 The retum and the nomination 4 The arcana of quantity 5 Disjunetion 108 m 130 me bs ne 140 a2 150 11 14 156 156 139 161 16h 168 16s 69 part IV The Event: History and Uliracone 16 fvental Sites and Historical Situatlons 17 The Matheme ofthe Event 18 Beings Probibition ofthe Event 1 The ontological schema of historicity and instability 2 The axiom of foundation 5 The axiom of foundation is a metaontoogical thesis of ontology 44 Nature and history 5 The event belongs to that-which-s-not-being quai 19 Mallarmé art V The Event: Intervention and Fidelity. ‘Pascal/Choice; Holderlin/ Deduction 20 The Intervention: legal choice of a name for the event, logic ofthe two, temporal foundation 21 Pascal 22 ‘The Form-multipe of Intervention: there a being of choice? 23 Fidelity, Connection 24 Deduction 3s Operator of Ontological Fidelity 1 The formal concept of deduction 2 Reasoning via hypothesis 3 Reasoning va the absurd 4 Tle determination of deductive fidelity 25 Holderlin art VI Quantity and Knowledge. The Discernible (or Constructible): Leibniz/Gidel 26 The Concept of Quantity andthe Impasse of Ontology 1 The quantiative comparison of infinite sets 2 Natural quantitative correlate of a multiple: cardinality and cardinals 5 The problem of infinite cardinals mm 178 188 18 er 187 189 11 201 a2 2 22 2a a7 255 265 267 269 m contents ‘Tis Ens ing ston © Carus 2005 treat ange do Roya ent anion te hs esered Nop of hs pobeton may be report “nmin yt yy cr nn ig [Natale cede sb evil he Rh bay, rary of Canes Catalan PBiin Dat ‘tlre fort bok ania en he ayo anges ‘ro by ae Se er Contents Author’ Preface ‘Transators Preface Introduction Multiple and Void. Plato/Cantor 1 The One and the Muliple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology 2 Pt 3. Theory ofthe Pure Multiple: paradoxes and cities decision “echnical Note: the conventions of writing 4 The Vold: Proper name of being 5 The Mark 2 1 The same and the other: the axiom of extensionalty 2 The operations under condition: axis ofthe powers, of union, of separation and of replacement 3 The void, subvactve suture to being 6 Ariswole Part I Being: Excess, State of the Situation, Onel ‘Multiple, Whole/Parts, or @/

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