Alain Badiou. A History of Finitude and Infinity: Romanticism and Modern... (2011)

source: European Graduate School      2011年12月17日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the dialectical conception of the relationship between the finite and infinite in romanticism and modernity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the dialectical fusion of the One and the infinite, Christianity, God, the figure of Christ, truth, miracle and transcendental affirmation in relationship to René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Plato, Blaise Pascal and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on being, existence, truth, subjectivity, abstraction, miracle, possibility, the common measure and generating the new. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.