Two Paths to Infinite Thought: Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida on the Question of the Whole

This essay defends an idea that is no longer fashionable: that there is a whole. The motivation for a defense of this notion has nothing to do with intellectual conservatism or a penchant for Hegel. Rather, what we hope to establish is a second path into what Alain Badiou has called the ‘Cantorian...

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Main Author: Lynn Sebastian Purcel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. 2012-05-01
Series:Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/151/467