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Badiou and Disciplinary Truths

A Companion to The Immanence of Truths

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Badiou and Disciplinary Truths

A Companion to The Immanence of Truths

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Why must truths be universal, singular, and absolute? And what makes their existence possible in a world that no longer admits transcendent guarantees?

In this companion to The Immanence of Truths, Mohammad Reza Naderi introduces the Theory of Discipline, an original philosophical framework that reconstructs Alain Badiou's late philosophy of truth from within. Rather than offering a commentary on Badiou's final major work, Naderi develops a systematic account of how truths begin, endure, and acquire the universal, singular, and absolute character that defines them.

Building on Badiou's claim that truths emerge not in philosophy itself but through the truth procedures of science, politics, art, and love, Naderi argues that philosophy's task is to think the disciplinary conditions that make these procedures possible. Naderi's Theory of Discipline provides a new conceptual architecture for understanding truth as an immanent yet enduring structure rather than an epistemic achievement or metaphysical given.
Engaging closely with The Immanence of Truths, and Badiou's wider philosophical project, Badiou and Disciplinary Truths demonstrates how recent developments in set theory illuminate the ontological conditions of truths while simultaneously extending Badiou's philosophy beyond its own explicit formulations. The result is both a rigorous guide to Badiou's late work and an original contribution to contemporary philosophy, offering a new way to think truth, ontology, and the conditions of transformative practices.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Truth, Discipline, and the Absolute

PART ONE: DISCIPLINARY TRUTH
1. God Is Dead; One Is Not
2. Truth: Its Ontology and Phenomenology
3. The Disciplinary Truths
4. The Possibility of Truth After the Death of God

Appendix to Part One: Discipline - A Categorical Rendition

PART TWO: A Companion to The Immanence of Truths
Introduction: Conditions of Truth
5. The Immanence of Truths: Its Stakes and Its Methods
6. Constructibility as Ontological Regime
7. The Internal Failure of Definability - Forcing and Generic Extensions
8. Ontology Beyond Definability
9. The Absolute, Truth, and Discipline

Bibliography
Notes
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Feb 18 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 336
ISBN 9781350555440
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mohammad Reza Naderi

Mohammad Reza Naderi is the author of Badiou, Infi…

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