
Being and Event
1988 · 526 pages
Set theory, Badiou insists, is the only language that can say what being is. Truth erupts as an event in politics, art, science, or love, and a subject is whoever stays faithful.
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Set theory, Badiou insists, is the only language that can say what being is. Truth erupts as an event in politics, art, science, or love, and a subject is whoever stays faithful.

Hegel tracks the mind from bare sensation to full self-knowledge, each stage collapsing under its own contradictions into the next. His fight between master and slave has been argued over ever since.