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.
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.
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
The first English translation of L'immanence des Vérités, the final part of Badiou's iconic Being and Event trilogy.
Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and
at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. He is
the author of Being and Event and The Logic of Worlds as well as
numerous plays, novels and political essays.
Kenneth Reinhard is Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los
Angeles, USA.
Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou’s works.
Alain Badiou is that rare thing: a true Philosopher. In an age of
cynicism, nihilism, relativism, and the deadening suspicion of
thought, Badiou remains true to the courage that characterises
Philosophy from the very beginning. Casting his rational and
patient eye over developments in thought, religion and mathematics,
Badiou continues to grapple with the infinite in this admirably
clear work. Everyone is already capable of thought, Badiou
suggests, the point is to realise it.
*Nina Power, Philosopher, UK*
The Immanence of Truths completes Alain Badiou’s philosophical
trilogy that began with Being and Event. It is a grand summa of
years of conceptual creativity, mathematical research, political
militancy in the quest for a new form of communism, and fidelity to
the infinite power of art and the amorous encounter.
*Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin
American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, USA*
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