Immanence of truths : Being and event III / Alain Badiou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Standardized Title:

Immanence des vérités. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Absolute, The.

Finite, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350115286

1350115282

9781350115316

1350115312

OCLC:

1290324984