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This book continues [[Alain ]] Badiou’s [[project ]] to posit an integral link between [[mathematics ]] and [[ontology]]. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, ''Briefings on [[Existence]]'' engages the [[ideas ]] of [[Deleuze]], [[Spinoza]], [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], and [[Kant ]] and outlines how the [[philosophical ]] inquiry into [[Being ]] and existence converges with the possible [[world ]] [[topology ]] of [[category ]] [[theory]]. Set against the background of a multiplication of gods that can be declared [[dead ]] (the gods of [[religions]], [[metaphysics]], and [[poetry]]), [[Badiou ]] argues that the extension of these events has fallen short of accomplishing its collective promise, but can be achieved through the [[mathematical ]] [[understanding ]] of ontology. After several remarkable decades of [[theoretical ]] invention, [[French ]] [[philosophy ]] stands at a crossroads, and Badiou’s egalitarian [[materialism ]] is one of its strongest calls forward.