The aim of Badiou’s book THE IMMANENCE OF TRUTHS is to provide a fully worked out critique of and alternative to contemporary relativism. The line of argument is to convince us that we live in L, the “constructible universe” of set theory (a universe that is “finite” because constructed out of assemblages of already known predicates), without being aware that this is the case, to guide us progressively from L to V (the class of all sets – the universe containing the large non-constructible infinities), and to elevate us to the « Absolute » (the philosophical name for V), and finally to take us down again into the finitude of L equipped with perceptions drawn from V, thus permitting us to “re-index” the world according to absoluteness and no longer in terms of relativity.
This conceptual path may seem daunting, but it is well worth the effort. It is conjoined…
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