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dc.contributor.authorFraser, Zachary Luke.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-21T13:54:40Z
dc.date.available2009-05-21T13:54:40Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-21T13:54:40Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1385
dc.description.abstractThis thesis seeks to elucidate a motif common to the work both of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou (with special attention being given to Being and Nothingness and Being and Event respectively): the thesis that the subject 's existence precedes and determines its essence. To this end, the author aims to explicate the structural invariances, common to both philosophies, that allow this thesis to take shape. Their explication requires the construction of an overarching conceptual framework within which it may be possible to embed both the phenomenological ontology elaborated in Being and Event and the mathematical ontology outlined in Being and Event. Within this framework, whose axial concept is that of multiplicity, the precedence of essence by existence becomes intelligible in terms of a priority of extensional over intensional determination. A series of familiar existentialist concepts are reconstructed on this basis, such as lack and value, and these are set to work in the task of fleshing out the more or less skeletal theory of the subject presented in Being and Event.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectSartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.en_US
dc.subjectBadiou, Alain.en_US
dc.subjectMathematicsen_US
dc.subjectExistentialism.en_US
dc.titleThis infinite, unanimous dissonance : a study in mathematical existentialism through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiouen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Philsophyen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Humanititiesen_US
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