Alain Badiou. Toward A Positive Definition of The Infinite. 2011

source: European Graduate School      2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about a positive form of the dialectical relation between the finite and infinite. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the distinction between finite and infinite possibilities, immanent infinity as life potency, different types of infinity, and the complete separation between the infinite and the One in relationship to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexandre Koyré, Auguste Comte, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, immortality, physics, capitalism, humanity, equality, God, Christianity, affirmation and virtuality. 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.