Badiou, Alain - Being and Event II. Logics of Worlds [2006].pdf

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LOGICS OF WORLDS
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Also available from Continuum:
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Infinite Thought, Alain Badiou
Theory of the Subject, Alain Badiou
After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux
The Politics of Aesthetics, Jacques Rancière
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Desert Screen, Paul Virilio
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LOGICS OF WORLDS
BEING AND EVENT, 2
Alain Badiou
Translated by Alberto Toscano
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This work is published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture – Centre National
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Originally published in French as Logiques des mondes © Editions du Seuil, 2006
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN-10: HB: 0–8264–9470–6
ISBN-13: HB: 978–0–8264–9470–2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Badiou, Alain.
[Logiques des mondes. English]
Logics of worlds / Alain Badiou ; translated by Alberto Toscano. p. cm.
Includes bibliographic references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978–0–8264–9470–2
1. Ontology. 2. Subjectivity. 3. Truth. I. Title.
2009
194—dc22
2008036972
Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
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To Françoise Badiou
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