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In Praise of Mathematics - Couverture souple

Badiou, Alain

 
9781509512034: In Praise of Mathematics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1509512039 ISBN 13 : 9781509512034
Editeur : Polity Press, 2016

Synopsis

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it's not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness?

That is precisely the issue at stake in this dialogue, which serves as a very accessible introduction to what mathematics is and an exploration of the crucial influence it has always exerted on the greatest philosophers. Far from the thankless, pointless exercises they are often thought to be, mathematics and logic are indispensable guides to ridding ourselves of dominant opinions and making possible an access to truths, or to a human experience of the utmost value. That is why mathematics may well be the shortest path to the true life, which, when it exists, is characterized by an incomparable happiness.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher and an Emeritus Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Gilles Haéri is a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and Director General of the French publishing house Éditions Flammarion.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509512039
ISBN 13 
9781509512034
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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