Elden, Stuart,  1971- <br/><br/>
Speaking against number :  Heidegger, language and the politics of calculation / 
Stuart Elden. 
 - xv, 192 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Taking on the political .
 - Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland). .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>074861981X 9780748619818 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 --Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages--Philosophy<br/>Mathematics--Philosophy.<br/>Political science--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JA71  / .E3945 2006 B3279.H49  / E3855 2006 JC263.H34  / E43 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.01