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The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant

The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant

Badiou, Alain
Lezra, Jacques
Spitzer, Susan

Paperback

Series: Seminars of Alain Badiou

Philosophy

ISBN10: 023121880X
ISBN13: 9780231218801
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series on the One is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant--a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no One there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.

What is novel in Badiou's view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things--yet, as he observes, it often is taken to count as one operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between the One and counting as one emerges as essential to Badiou's ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, Being and Event.

Showcasing the seeds of Badiou's key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

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