Badiou and Hegel - Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity

This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy.

List of contents

1. Measuring Up: Some Consequences of Badiou's Confrontation with Hegel, A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens
2. The Good, the Bad and the Indeterminate: Hegel and Badiou on the Dialectics of the Infinite, Tzuchien Tho
3. Badiou contra Hegel: The Materialist Dialectic Against the Myth of the Whole, Adriel M. Trott
4. The Question of Art: Badiou and Hegel, Gabriel Riera
5. Badiou with Hegel: Preliminary Remarks on A(ny) Contemporary Reading of Hegel, Frank Ruda
6. The Biolinguistic Challenge to an Intrinsic Ontology, Norman Madarasz
7. Badiou and Hegel on Love and the Family, Jim Vernon
8. Fidelity to the Political Event: Hegel, Badiou, and the Return to the Same, Antonio Calcagno
9. Taming the Furies: Badiou and Hegel on The Eumenides, Alberto Toscano

About the author

Edited by Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno - Contributions by Alberto Toscano; Gabriel Riera; Frank Ruda; Tzuchien Tho; A. J. Bartlett; Justin Clemens; Adriel M. Trott and Norman Madarasz

Summary

This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Calcagno Vernon
• Assisted by: Antonio Calcagno (Editor), Jim Vernon (Editor), Vernon Jim (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780739199916
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9991-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -