Table of Contents

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

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Brings together an international selection of philosophers to explore the relation between Badiou’s philosophy and major strands of German philosophy: German Idealism, Phenomenology, and the Frankfurt School

About the Author

Jan Völker is Assistant Professor, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.

Reviews

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'*