The immanence of truths / Alain Badiou ; translated by Kenneth Reinhard, Susan Spitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Contributor:

Reinhard, Kenneth, 1957- translator.

Spitzer, Susan (Susan Jane), 1946- translator.

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Series:

Being and event ; 3

Standardized Title:

Immanence des vérités. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Ontology.

truth.

ontologies (vocabularies).

ontology (metaphysics).

Physical Description:

viii, 612 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"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 truth 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"--Amazon.ca.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Speculative Strategy

II. Immanence, Finitude, Infinity

III. The Absolute Ontological Referent

IV. The Two Possible Ways of Reading this Book

Prologue

Formal Exposition of the Absolute Place

SECTION I The Classic Forms of Finitude

C1. The Destinies of Finitude

S1. Modern Finitude's Trial by Poetry: Rene Char

C2. The Four Types of Finitude

S2. The Localization of the Infinite in Hugo's Poetry

C3. The Operators of Finitude: 1, Identity

S3. Impersonality According to Emily Dickinson

C4. The Operators of Finitude: 2. Repetition

S4. Paul Celan: The Work Put to the Test of Concealed Repetitions

C5. The Operators of Finitude: 3. Evil

S5. Mandelstam in Voronezh: Make No Concession to Evil. Neither Complaint nor Fear

C6. The Operators of Finitude: 4. Necessity and God

S6. Bare Being: Neither God nor Interpretation nor Necessity. The Poems of Alberto Caeiro

C7. The Operators of Finitude: 5. Death

S7. A Poem by Brecht. The Unknown Man: Death and Identity, or Life and Universality

SECTION II The Modernity of Finitude: Covering-Over

C8. The Phenomenology of Covering-Over

S8. Beckett: The Uncovering of the Covering-Over of an Infinity

C9. The Ontology of Covering-Over

S9. The Formal Exposition of the Constructible Universe

C10. A Crucial Choice: Constructible or Generic?

S10. Godel and Cohen

SECTION III The Supremacy of Infinity

C11. The Four Approaches to Infinity

C12. Inaccessible Infinities

S12. The Matheme of the Inaccessible

C13. Infinities of Resistance to Division

S13. The Matheme of Partitions: Compact and Ramsey Cardinals

C14. The Infinity by Way of the Immanent Size of the Subsets

SECTION IV Approaching the Absolute

C15. Under What Conditions Can Classes Express the Absolute Place?

S15. Technical Conditions Necessary for Classes to "Resemble" V

C16. "Closer and Closer" to the Absolute?

S16. Elementary Embedding, Critical Point, Complete Cardinal

C17. The Explicit Relation Between the Absolute Place and One of Its Immanent Attributes

S17. The Construction of an Inner Model of V by Ultrapower

SECTION V Conditions for Defeating Covering-Over

C18. The Limiting of Modern Finitude Contingent on an Infinity. Scott's Theorem

S18. Infinities in the Finite, Infinities Beyond Any Finite. Proof of Scott's Theorem

C19. The Ontological Conditions for Any Creative Initiative. Jensen's Theorem

S19. The Apparent Simplicity and Actual Confusion of Finitude. Jensen's Theorem

SECTION VI Parmenides' Revenge

C20. The Hierarchy of Infinities

S20. Differences, Orders, and Limits in the Realm of the Infinities

C21. An End Without an End. Kunen's Theorem

S21. Kunen's Theorem and Beyond

SECTION VII The General Theory of Works-in-Truth

C22. The Index of the Absoluteness of a Work

S22. The Index of Absoluteness in Plato

SECTION VIII Works Based on the Object: Art, Science

C23. The Power of Form: The Arts

S23. Hegel, the Arts, and Cinema

C24. The Power of Mathematical Formalization: The Sciences

S24. Husserl, the "Crisis," and Science

SECTION IX Works Based on Becoming: Love, Politics

C25. The Work of Love: The Scene of the Two

S25. Auguste Comte and Love

C26. Finite Politics, Infinite Politics

S26. A Real Political Text.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350115293

1350115290

9781350115309

1350115304

OCLC:

1156618847

Publisher Number:

99991279145