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In Praise of Mathematics

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

In Praise of Mathematics

By Alain Badiou, Gilles Haeri

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About the book

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, ...Show more

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9781509512034

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Polity Press

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2016

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In Praise of Mathematics

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