The <i>Being and Event</i> 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: <i>Being and Event</i> (1988). ),<i> Logics of the Worlds (</i>2006) and finally <i>The Immanence of Truths</i>, which he has been working on for 15 years. The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in <i>Logics of Worlds. </i>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 <i>The Immanence of Truths </i>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 <i>Being and Event </i>trilogy is a unique and ambitious work that reveals how truths can be at once context-spec
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Since the book¿s first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou¿s <i>Being and Event</i> has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers...
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<i>Logics of Worlds</i> is the sequel to Alain Badiou''s masterpiece, <i>Being and Event</i>. Tackling the questions that had been left open by <i>Being and Event</i>, and answering many of his critics in...
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In <i>Mathematics of the Transcendental</i>, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the ''thinking...
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<p>Who hasn''t had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of Midnight." The furtive...
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