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''Logics of Worlds'' is the sequel to [[Alain ]] Badiou’s much-heralded masterpiece, ''[[Being ]] and [[Event]]''. Tackling the questions that had been [[left ]] open by ''[[Being and Event]]'', and answering many of his critics in the [[process]], [[Badiou ]] supplements his pioneering [[treatment ]] of multiple being with a daring and [[complex ]] [[theory ]] of the worlds in which truths and [[subjects ]] make their mark – what he calls a [[materialist ]] [[dialectic]]. The radical recasting of ''[[ontology]]'' in ''Being and Event'' is followed and complemented here by a thoroughgoing transformation in our very [[understanding ]] of ''[[logic]]'', conceived as a theory not of ''being'' but of ''appearing''.

Unafraid to resurrect and reinvent the classical themes of [[philosophy]], Badiou gives new [[meaning ]] to [[concepts ]] such as [[object]], [[body ]] and relation, mobilising [[them ]] in arresting studies that range from the architectural planning of Brasilia to contemporary [[astronomy]], and confronting himself with towering [[philosophical ]] counterparts (Leibniz, [[Kant]], [[Hegel]], [[Kierkegaard]], [[Lacan]], [[Deleuze]]). The book culminates in an impassioned call to ‘live for an Idea’. Now in paperback, the book is accessible to a wider audience.