The immanence of truths Being and event III / Alain Badiou ; translated by Susan Spitzer and Kenneth Reinhard.

Author/creator Badiou, Alain
Other author Spitzer, Susan (Susan Jane), 1946.
Other author Reinhard, Kenneth, 1957.
Other author Badiou, Alain.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Descriptionviii, 612 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleImmanence des vérités. English
Portion of title Being and event III
SeriesBeing and event ; 3
Contents Introduction / by Kenneth Reinhard -- Prologue. Formal exposition of the absolute place -- Section I. The classic forms of finitude -- Section II. The modernity of finitude: covering-over -- Section III. The supremacy of infinity -- Section IV. Approaching 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.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
General noteTranslation of: L'immanence des vérités.
General noteThird and final volume of L'être et l'événement (Being and event).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023278960
ISBN9781350115293 hardcover
ISBN1350115290 hardcover
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ISBNelectronic publication
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