TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elden,Stuart
TI  - Speaking against number: Heidegger, language and the politics of calculation 
T2  - Taking on the political
SN  - 074861981X
AV  - JA71 .E3945 2006
U1  - 320.01 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Heidegger, Martin,
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Political science
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -