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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.
List of contents
List of SymbolsIntroduction,
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
About the author
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.
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 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.
Foreword
The first English translation of L'immanence des Vérités, the final part of Badiou's iconic Being and Event trilogy.
Additional text
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.
