Badiou is the philosopher who attempts in the most original and coherent way to re-establish the regime of truth in contemporary thought, which has been marked by Nietzschean deconstruction of this category.

Specifically, he reintroduces it as a central category of philosophy, centralizes the philosophical act in its performativity, and proclaims, in resonance with Lacan, that there are truths.

The texts that make up this volume compose the first purely philosophical body of texts in Greek and participate in the axiomatic core of his thought, attached to it by the conceptual web of truth.

Badiou here unravels the thread of truth from the point of its emergence, the ruptural locality of the event, to the limit of its power - that which the truth process cannot name and which Badiou, in honor of Beckett, calls 'the unnamable'.

From the event to the unnamable, the trace of truth is systematically located by Badiou based on the fundamental concept of 'subtraction'.