The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

by Paul Livingston

Book Overview

In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138016764
• ISBN13: 9781138016767
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"