Alain Badiou reader of Hegel

Abstract

Everything and emptiness do not mean the same thing in Badiou as in Hegel. However, it is perhaps possible to trace a reading trajectory whose inflection points to the pertinence that may exist in the theoretical-ontological orientations of a doctrine of space where the Whole, as a sutured concept, implies and includes a split, a division. In this sense, it is important to question the scope of the ontological background of a doctrine of space as a mechanism of containment of the Whole and legitimisation of a new place. Thus, this article that follows aims to interpret Alain Badiou's concepts of Whole, Space, Void and Excision particularly by exploring how, through these notions, Badiou is a reader of Hegel.