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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction - The Transmission and Its.Moment -- 1 Beyond Negative Dialectics -- 2 Badiou, Kant and the Question of the Subject -- 3 Lack and Concept: On Hegelian Motives in Badiou -- 4 Hegel's Immanence of Truths -- 5 The Torsion of Idealism -- 6 Marx, an 'Antiphilosopher'? Or Badiou's Philosophical Politics of Demarcation -- 7 The Question Concerning Technology: Badiou versus Heidegger -- 8 Can a Philosopher Have Dirty Hands? What Adorno Has to Say about Badiou -- 9 Yes and No, Adorno or Badiou: The Negativity of the Subject -- 10 Badiou and Adorno on Philosophy and.Music -- 11 Form and Affect: Artistic Truth in Adorno and.Badiou -- Index

The article proposes to reconsider the late Heidegger's examination of the concept of the world, as for Heidegger the eradication of all life on planet earth is not the most horrible thing that could happen. It is the impossibility of thinking the world that exposes us to something worse: the loss of our link with being. Following Heidegger, to think the world is not only necessary to prevent the extinction of life on earth, but, moreover, the loss of thinking the world lies at the beginning of the crisis we are living through.

The article reads the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit as the unfolding of the first circle in the development of spirit. It starts with a deception, as we become aware of the impossibility of reading the text along the lines of a regular understanding of regular meanings: instead, the speculative presentation needs to be written while reading. Philosophy takes place in this actualisation of the speculative, and Hegel appears within the text not as its author, but as the site of the speculative, in which he disappears at the same time. This first circle creates a model for the development of spirit in which the theological form of the kenosis is actualised. Spirit empties itself and actualises itself as externalised, directing us beyond Hegel's text to other texts, only to find its actual presentation in other places.

Hegel remarked that 'philosophy is its own time captured in thought'. Philosophy thus relates to the world by taking it as the condition for its own operation, whose aim is to develop the rationality of the real. The theme of conditions emerging in recent thought maintains Hegel's idea, but reverses its direction. Philosophy stands under the injunction of its temporal horizon, not anymore to seize the rationality of its whole, but to capture singular excesses emerging in it. The present confronts philosophy not with the necessity to confirm its maturity, but with the difficult task of capturing nascent novelties, which emerge as radical exceptions to the given state of affairs. Within the framework of a one-day workshop, we will explore with our invited guests the contemporary problem of conditions, by examining ways in which philosophy encounters revolutionary political actions, psychoanalytic practice and inventions in the fields of the sciences, as irreducible fields which reorient its own activity. ; Philosophy Under Condition , workshop, ICI Berlin, 10 July 2010