| #1409045 in Books | Verso | 2011-06-22 | 2011-06-22 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 7.92 x.79 x5.41l,.64 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| THE SECOND ATOMISM: "ATOMISM-OF-STATES"|By barryb|THE SECOND ATOMISM: "ATOMISM-OF-STATES": finally, a thinker who is not afraid to take on Wittgenstein as facing the problem of "Being". This is basically a 100 page essay by Badiou on the philosophy of Wittgenstein; taken from the perspective of post-modern thought. Is that possible? "Yes"; and in a remarkable way.
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence—showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning—Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy | Alain Badiou. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
