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The Politics of Logic: Chapter 4 Notes and Comments

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Chapter 1 NotesChapter 2 NotesChapter 3 Notes Derrida and Formalism Livingston states that an aim of this chapter is looking at the extent to which elements of Derrida’s deconstruction are a reflection on formalism and a parallel to metalogical results that arise from reflection on the structure and limits of language. He suggests that several […]

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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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