In so doing, he nicely illustrates the philosophical stakes of developments in mathematics post-dating Hegel's death, thus leading to the observation that, "The natural 'Badiouian' question for Hegel. Tho valuably situates Badiou's mathematical "meta-ontology" in the larger sweep of the history of mathematics. The immediately following essay, Tzuchien Tho's "The Good, the Bad, and the Indeterminate: Hegel and Badiou on the Dialectics of the Infinite," complements and buttresses these aspects of Bartlett and Clemens's contribution. Furthermore, Bartlett and Clemens clearly explain why and how Badiou's recasting of ontology via set theory (according to the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel plus the axiom of choice ) brings him into conflict with notions of infinity and totality associated with Hegel's "absolute idealism." Bartlett and Justin Clemens's "Measuring Up: Some Consequences of Badiou's Confrontation with Hegel" is well positioned at the start of this volume by virtue of its furnishing a helpful, even-handed overview of the history of Badiou's exchanges with Hegel across the arc of his intellectual itinerary. The essays in Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno's timely collection cover the multiple facets of Badiou's highly ambivalent rapport with Hegel's philosophy as it unfolds from the 1970s through today.Ī. The system of the "mature" Badiou, starting with his 1988 magnum opus Being and Event, seems to shift towards a more critical stance vis-à-vis Hegel. Such early works of the 1970s and 1980s as Theory of Contradiction, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, and Theory of the Subject feature Marxist (specifically Maoist) revisitations of Hegelian speculative dialectics in which antagonisms, destruction, splitting, and volatility are emphasized and valorized over reconciliations, syntheses, unifications, and stability. From its beginnings, Alain Badiou's corpus contains recurrent engagements with G.W.F.
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