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Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers
critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the
Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel.
Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and
emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the
relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious
collection of essays by Hegelians, Badiouans, and those sympathetic
to both. The text privileges neither thinker, nor any particular
topic shared between them; rather, this book lays a broad and sound
foundation for future scholarship on arguably two of the greatest
thinkers of infinity, universality, subjectivity, and the enduring
value of philosophy in the modern Western canon. Assuredly overdue,
this volume will attract Hegel and Badiou scholars, as well as
those interested in post-structuralism, political philosophy,
cultural studies, ontology, philosophy of mathematics, and
psychoanalysis.
Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers
critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the
Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel.
Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and
emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the
relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious
collection of essays by Hegelians, Badiouans, and those sympathetic
to both. The text privileges neither thinker, nor any particular
topic shared between them; rather, this book lays a broad and sound
foundation for future scholarship on arguably two of the greatest
thinkers of infinity, universality, subjectivity, and the enduring
value of philosophy in the modern Western canon. Assuredly overdue,
this volume will attract Hegel and Badiou scholars, as well as
those interested in post-structuralism, political philosophy,
cultural studies, ontology, philosophy of mathematics, and
psychoanalysis.
Intrigues: From Being to the Other examines the possibility of
writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that
preserves the other as such is possible, and discusses what the
implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. Emmanuel
Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, whose works constitute the most
thorough contemporary exploration of the question of the other and
of its relation to writing, are the main focus of this study. The
book's horizon is ethics in the Levinasian sense: the question of
the other, which, on the hither side of language understood as a
system of signs and of representation, must be welcomed by language
and preserved in its alterity. Martin Heidegger is an unavoidable
reference, however. While it is true that for the German
philosopher Being is an immanent production, his elucidation of a
more essential understanding of Being entails a deconstruction of
onto-theology, of the sign and the grammatical and logical
determinations of language, all decisive starting points for both
Levinas and Blanchot. At stake for both Levinas and Blanchot, then,
is how to mark a nondiscursive excess within discourse without
erasing or reducing it. How should one read and write the other in
the same without reducing the other to the same? Critics in recent
years have discussed an "ethical moment or turn" characterized by
the other's irruption into the order of discourse. The other
becomes a true crossroads of disciplines, since it affects several
aspects of discourse: the constitution of the subject, the status
of knowledge, the nature of representation, and what that
representation represses (gender, power). Yet there has been a
tendency to graft the other onto paradigms whose main purpose is to
reassess questions of identity, fundamentally in terms of
representation; the other thus loses some of its most crucial
features. Through close readings of texts by Heidegger, Levinas,
and Blanchot the book examines how the question of the other
engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power.
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