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The Transcendental And Inexistence In Alain Badiou’S Philosophy: A Derridean Similarity?, Antonio Calcagno
The Transcendental And Inexistence In Alain Badiou’S Philosophy: A Derridean Similarity?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
In Logics of Worlds, Badiou claims that his concept of inexistence is similar to Derrida’s différance. This paper argues that Derrida’s double bind of possibility and impossibility, which co-constitutes and flows from the spatio-temporising that is différance, is less binary in its logic than Badiou’s notion of inexistence allows. For Badiou, time and the subject are constituted by the event, by a decision and the fidelity to a decision. He has no real sense of Derridean space: Badiou discusses space as localisation, atoms, situations or the containment that is proper to any set. Derridean spatialsing stems from de Saussure and …