The immanence of truths
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The immanence of truths
（Being and event / Alain Badiou ; translated by Alberto Toscano, 3）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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L'immanence des vérités
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Originally published: 2018
Description and Table of Contents
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The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years.
The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in Logics of Worlds. Where in that book, Badiou saw fit to analyze how truths, qua events, appear from the perspective of particular worlds that by definition exclude them, in The Immanence of Truths Badiou asks instead how the irruption of truths transforms the worlds within which they by necessity must arise. An emphasis on regularity and continuity has given way to an attempt, one unquestionable in its philosophical power and implications, to formalize rupture and reconfiguration.
The Being and Event trilogy is a unique and ambitious work that reveals how truths can be at once context-specific and universal, situational and eternal.
Table of Contents
List of Symbols
Introduction, Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA, USA)
Prologue
Section I: The Classic Forms Of Finitude
Section II: The Modernity Of Finitude: Covering-Over
Section III: The Supremacy Of Infinity
Section IV: On The Edge Of The Absolute
Section V: Conditions For Defeating Covering-Over
Section VI: Parmenides' Revenge.
Section VII: The General Theory Of Works-In-Truth
Section VIII: Works Based On The Object: Art, Science
Section IX: Works Based On Becoming: Love, Politics
General Conclusion
Appendices
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