Metaphysics Of Number

Siberian languages in contact, 2: The nonal counting system in Siberia and Russian devjanosto ‘90’

by Marek Stachowski

Parallel Proportions, Numerical Structures and Harmonie in P 180

by Ruth Tatlow

Exporing Bach's B-Minor Mass. Eds. Yo Tomita, Jan Smaczny and Robin A. Leaver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
Chapter Eight.

Chapter Eight: With every addition and revision he made to P180, Bach altered the score's numerical structure,... more Chapter Eight: With every addition and revision he made to P180, Bach altered the score's numerical structure, destroying old numerical plans and creating new possibilities. Using evidence from the historically-informed theory of proportional parallelismlatest research in combination with latest research in source studies, Tatlow sheds new and significant light on the nature of Bach's revisions to the B-Minor Mass. Working from the 1733 Missa to the final penstroke in P180 her results explain many hitherto ignored reasons for Bach's additions and alterations.

The Subject of Logic: The Object (Lacan with Kant and Frege)

by Guillaume Collett

Journal of European Psychoanalysis, special issue on Lacan and philosophy. Forthcoming, Autumn 2011

In this article I aim to show how Lacan and his school developed a logic of the signifier, which, as I demonstrate,... more In this article I aim to show how Lacan and his school developed a logic of the signifier, which, as I demonstrate, has its roots in Frege’s The Foundations of Arithmetic and Kant’s transcendental logic. This is only one possible genealogy of Lacan’s logic of the signifier and it does not claim to be exhaustive. In the first section I offer a reading of Frege as a Kantian which anticipates Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller’s appropriation of Frege, dealt with in the second section. I will show that Frege’s logic presupposes a transcendental subject and that the subject it presupposes it not identical with itself. This argument forms the core content of the paper. In the second section I refer to Lacan’s logic of the signifier directly and explain how it accounts for key features of Frege’s (post-)Kantian logic whilst developing a psychoanalytic or enunciative logic which I sketch out. I reconstruct this logic from a number of arguments scattered throughout Lacan’s writings and seminars, as well as from Miller’s key piece “The Suture (elements of the logic of the signifier)”. Finally, in this article I repeatedly emphasise the point that for Kant, Frege, and Lacan the subject of logic is the object (a), which is indeed the subject objectified.