| Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answers students' questions on infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses three historical sequences of the infinite, the philosophy of life, the dialectical relationship between infinity and finitude, distinctions between infinities and set theory in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on hubris, science, Christianity, totality, God, capitalism, the One, void, being, existence, truth, subjectivity, dialectics, Greek tragedy, perfection and affirmation. European Graduate School EGS |
