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The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant

By (author) Alain Badiou, Translated by Jacques Lezra, Translated by Susan Spitzer, Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

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Alain Badiouâ€™s 1983â€“1984 lecture series on â€œthe Oneâ€ 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 Kantâ€”a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no â€œOneâ€: there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple. What is novel in Badiouâ€™s view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of thingsâ€”yet, as he observes, it often is taken to â€œcount as oneâ€ operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between â€œthe Oneâ€ and â€œcounting as oneâ€ emerges as essential to Badiouâ€™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 Badiouâ€™s key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

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