Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy

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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.

Introduction Jan Völker, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

Chapter 1. 'Beyond the Negative Dialectics : Beyond the Weak Opposition Heidegger /Adorno'Alain Badiou

Section 1: German Idealism
Chapter 2. 'Badiou and Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment' Rado Riha, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Slovenia
Chapter 3.'Lack and Concept: On Hegelian motives in Badiou' Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany
Chapter 4. 'Hegel's Immanence of Truths' Frank Ruda, Bard College Berlin, Germany
Chapter 5. 'Lack and Excess / Zero and One: Hegel with Badiou Limits of Idealism' Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Chapter 6. 'The Torsion of Idealism' Jan Völker, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

Section 2: Adorno
Chapter 7. 'Yes and No. The Negativity of the Subject' Christoph Menke, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Chapter 8. 'From Melancholy of Form to Metaphysics of Happiness: Form and Feeling in Adorno and Badiou' Rok Bencin, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Slovenia
Chapter 9. 'Badiou, not without Adorno' Jelica Sumic, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Slovenia
Chapter 10. 'Can a Philosopher Have Dirty Hands? What Adorno has to say about Badiou' Alexander García Düttmann, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

Section 3: Heidegger
Chapter 11. 'Heidegger and Being and Event' Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 12. 'Badiou Reading Heidegger' Elisabeth Rigal, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Index

Product details

Published	07 Feb 2019
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Pages	232
ISBN	9781350069954
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Series	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy is one of the most inspiring anthologies on the thinker in question.

Continental Thought & Theory
Collectively, the essays succeed admirably in positioning the essential concepts and operations of Badiou's philosophy in relation to the distinct traditions of German idealism, phenomenology, and negative dialectics … [These] essays will be both illuminating and rewarding for all those who have an interest in the legacies of these philosophical movements, or in the contemporary possibilities for a new, formally motivated thinking of the central categories of philosophical thought that figure within them.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Alain Badiou's relationship to German philosophy has always been productively ambivalent. This stunning collection of essays by some of the most interesting younger philosophers writing today examines this relationship in strikingly original ways. Much more than an account of the influence of these thinkers on Badiou, or of his critical reflections on them, this book presents a sequence of primary reflections on the nature of philosophy itself as it must be rethought by the encounter of Badiou and the German Idealist tradition and its aftermath.

Kenneth Reinhard, Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA
Jan Volker's collection traces out a rich yet largely unexplored seam in Alain Badiou's oeuvre. It is both ambitious it what it seeks to exploit from this German run and sure in what it achieves. In properly dialectical fashion, the collection deftly exposes to us what this relationship between the French exposition and the German site is not, marking for us an aporia that must be passed through – the better to more fully comprehend Badiou's affirmative recommencement of philosophy. Thus the true value of the collection lies in its effective construction of this unknown relation between Badiou's French adventure and the German tradition.

A.J. Bartlett, translator of Badiou's 'Metaphysics of the Transcendental' and 'Happiness'