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Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language And The Politics Of Calculation
by Stuart Elden (Author),
Edinburgh University Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
Numbers and politics are inter-related at almost every level--be it the abstract
geometry of understandings of territory, the explosion of population statistics
and measures of economic standards, the popularity of Utilitarianism, Rawlsian
notions of justice, the notion of value, or simply the very idea of political
science. Time and space are reduced to co-ordinates, illustrating a very real
take on the political: a way of measuring and controlling it.
This book engages with the relation 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 the understandings of calculation is a
recurrent
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780748619818
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Publishing Date 2006-01-08
Total Pages 172