December 2020

The Politics of Logic: Chapter 2 Notes and Comments

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See here for notes on chapter one. In what follows Livingston describes and exhibits through a few examples the shared “paradoxico-critical” orientation that captures the most important elements of the legacy of the 20th century critical approaches of continental and analytic philosophy. He suggests that the distinguishing characteristics of  the PC orientation in both its […]

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The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism: Notes and Comments

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My notes and comments from the first chapter of Paul Livingston’s fantastic book (so far) The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism. Wittgenstein wrote in the Philosophical Investigations that “What has to be accepted, the given, is—so one could say—forms of life.” Theories of what he means oscillate between a conventional

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