Doubles of nothing: the problem of binding truth to being in the work of Alain Badiou

Deposited with permission of Filozofski vestnikIt is striking that, for a philosopher whose system is founded on the equation mathematics = ontology, responses to Alain Badiou’s work often attempt to circumvent the very precise scope, status, and strength that he assigns to mathematics. These circumventions are immediately apparent from even a glancing acquaintance with the secondary materials, though they take - as one might expect - rather different forms