The Mathematical in Heidegger and Badiou
Wade, Dylan
This work traces the historical development ofsubjectivity from its skeptical foundation inDescartes to Alain Badiou's subject as fidelity totruth. Heidegger criticizes modernity, defined asthe merging of the metaphysical and themathematical, for apprehending the relationshipbetween man and world in only one way, asthings. I hope show that this development does notderive from the mathematical alone, but fromthe project of objects against an ob...