In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from Set Theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requ...
Alain Badiou
Kindle Edition
296
Bloomsbury Academic
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Applies Badiou's philosophy to well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The MatrixAlex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks i...
Alex Ling
Paperback
224
Edinburgh University Press
0748677240
9780748677245
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Dreams of Gold - Dreams of Power These drove men and women to seek their fortune in Sarawak. They came from Britain - to carve a future on virgin soil - from China - to escape grinding poverty. They fought and traded, lived and died in the struggle to fulfil their dreams. Some lost their lives to bl...
Alex Ling
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790
XLIBRIS
1479791687
9781479791682
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Power, passion, politics. The sleepy state of Sarawak is stirred up as never before by the arrival of Gerald McBryan. An unscrupulous adventurer, he soon has the Rajah and Ranee eating out of his hand. The eminence grise of Rajah Vyner, he forces through decisions that have shaped what Sarawak is to...
Alex Ling
Paperback
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XLIBRIS
1479791652
9781479791651
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He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualize, and discover art. Badiou Reframed...
Alex Ling
Paperback
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I.B.Tauris
1780762607
9781780762609
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