Badiou and Hegel

Antonio Calcagno is associate professor of philosophy at King’s University College at Western University.Jim Vernon is associate professor of philosophy at York University.

• 1. Measuring Up: Some Consequences of Badiou’s Confrontation with Hegel, A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens2. The Good, the Bad and the Indeterminate: Hegel and Badiou on the Dialectics of the Infinite, Tzuchien Tho3. Badiou contra Hegel: The Materialist Dialectic Against the Myth of the Whole, Adriel M. Trott4. The Question of Art: Badiou and Hegel, Gabriel Riera5. Badiou with Hegel: Preliminary Remarks on A(ny) Contemporary Reading of Hegel, Frank Ruda6. The Biolinguistic Challenge to an Intrinsic Ontology, Norman Madarasz7. Badiou and Hegel on Love and the Family, Jim Vernon8. Fidelity to the Political Event: Hegel, Badiou, and the Return to the Same, Antonio Calcagno9. Taming the Furies: Badiou and Hegel on The Eumenides, Alberto Toscano

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. . . .For those interested in Badiou and Badiou's relations with Hegel, Badiou and Hegel certainly is worth reading. It contains useful summaries and analyses of the place(s) of Hegel in the Badiouian oeuvre.