The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou's philosophy, rather than its position within a broader philosophical genealogy. This book unites philosophers from Germany, Slovenia, the UK, Australia and France, to trace the relation between elements of Badiou's philosophy and the German philosophical tradition, namely the three significant movements of German Idealism, Phenomenology, Marxism and the Frankfurt School. This is a discussion that has not yet been established, although the parallels and decisive differences between poststructuralist French philosophy and German philosophy are apparent.
Through these paradigms – Badiou's reception of German Idealism, Marxism, Adorno and the Critical Theory, and Heideggerian phenomenology – the authors shed light onto Badiou's inheritance of and engagement with these specific traditions, but also highlight the links between these philosophies to open up new questions for contemporary continental thought.
With an original chapter from Alain Badiou himself, looking back at his influences and antagonisms within the German tradition, this book is essential for readers interested in the exploration of Badiou's legacy. It illustrates the continuation of poststructuralist philosophy, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, assessing the place of classic continental philosophy to tackle how we might benefit from these intellectual exchanges today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Also available from Bloomsbury
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction – The Transmission and Its Moment
- 1 Beyond Negative Dialectics
- 2 Badiou, Kant and the Question of the Subject
- 3 Lack and Concept: On Hegelian Motives in Badiou
- 4 Hegel’s Immanence of Truths
- 5 The Torsion of Idealism
- 6 Marx, an ‘Antiphilosopher’? Or Badiou’s Philosophical Politics of Demarcation
- 7 The Question Concerning Technology: Badiou versus Heidegger
- 8 Can a Philosopher Have Dirty Hands? What Adorno Has to Say about Badiou
- 9 Yes and No, Adorno or Badiou: The Negativity of the Subject
- 10 Badiou and Adorno on Philosophy and Music
- 11 Form and Affect: Artistic Truth in Adorno and Badiou
- Index
- Copyright Page
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