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Speaking against number : Heidegger, language and the politics of calculation / Stuart Elden.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006Description: xv, 192 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 074861981X
  • 9780748619818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 22
LOC classification:
  • JA71 .E3945 2006
  • B3279.H49 E3855 2006
  • JC263.H34 E43 2006
Contents:
Speaking : rhetorical politics -- Logos, logic and speech -- Reading Aristotle -- The importance of rhetoric -- Being together politically -- From Mitsein to community -- Phronesis and leadership -- Against : polemical politics -- 'The inner truth ... and greatness ... of national socialism' -- Number : calculative politics -- The problem of world -- Arithmetic and geometry -- Descartes and extension -- The measure of all things -- The politics of calculation -- Taking the measure of the political.
Review: "This book engages with the relationship between politics and number through a reading, exegesis and critique of the work of Martin Heidegger. The importance of mathematics and the role played by calculation is a recurrent concern in his writing and is regularly contrasted with understandings of speech and language. This book provides the most detailed analysis of the relationships between language, politics and mathematics in Heidegger's work. It insists that questions of language and calculation in Heidegger are inherently political, and that a for broader range of his work is concerned with politics than is usually admitted."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Speaking : rhetorical politics -- Logos, logic and speech -- Reading Aristotle -- The importance of rhetoric -- Being together politically -- From Mitsein to community -- Phronesis and leadership -- Against : polemical politics -- 'The inner truth ... and greatness ... of national socialism' -- Number : calculative politics -- The problem of world -- Arithmetic and geometry -- Descartes and extension -- The measure of all things -- The politics of calculation -- Taking the measure of the political.

"This book engages with the relationship between politics and number through a reading, exegesis and critique of the work of Martin Heidegger. The importance of mathematics and the role played by calculation is a recurrent concern in his writing and is regularly contrasted with understandings of speech and language. This book provides the most detailed analysis of the relationships between language, politics and mathematics in Heidegger's work. It insists that questions of language and calculation in Heidegger are inherently political, and that a for broader range of his work is concerned with politics than is usually admitted."--BOOK JACKET.

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