Core Readings
Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject, trans. Bruno Bosteels (London: Continuum, 2009), please focus on Part I, pp. 1-50 and Part III, pp. 111-176.
Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, trans. Tzuchien Tho (Melbourne: re:press, 2011).
Alain Badiou, “Hegel in France,” in The Adventure of French Philosophy, ed. and trans. Bruno Bosteels (London: Verso, 2012), pp. 19-26.
Mao Zedong, Five Essays on Philosophy (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1977), especially “On Contradiction” and “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” pp. 23-133.
Resources
Alain Badiou, “One Divides into Two,” in Lenin Reloaded, ed. Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Žižek (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 7-17.
Bosteels’ translator’s introduction to Badiou’s Theory of the Subject, pp. vii-xxviii.Bruno Bosteels, “Hegel,” in Alain Badiou: Key Concepts, ed. A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens (Durham, UK: Acumen, 2010), pp. 137-145.
Bruno Bosteels, “Hegel in America,” in Hegel & the Infinite. Religion, Politics, and Dialectic, ed. Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 67-90.
Bruno Bosteels, “Hegel in America: New Hypotheses” (unpublished manuscript).Bruno Bosteels, “Marx’s Theory of the Subject,” in Accumulation and Subjectivity in Latin America, ed. Karen Benezra (Albany: SUNY Press, 2022), pp. 255-274.
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Core Readings for Seminar on Althusser, Martin, Foucault, and Derrida
Louis Althusser, “On Content in the Thought of G. W. F. Hegel,” in The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings, trans. G. M. Goshgarian, ed. François Matheron (New York: Verso, 2014 [1947]) (master’s thesis), https://www.versobooks.com/products/1576-the-spectre-of-hegel.
Jacques Martin, L’individu chez Hegel, ed. Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod (Paris: ENS Éditions, 2020 [1947]) (master’s thesis).
Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel. Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie (Paris, Vrin: 2024 [1949]) (master’s thesis).
Jacques Derrida, Glas, trans. John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986 [1974]).
Additional Readings
Bernard E. Harcourt, “A Preface to Experience,” foreword to Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, trans. Marie McDonough (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025).
Pierre Macherey, “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?,” Theory, Culture & Society, 40(1-2), 19-36 (2022), available at https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903.
Oliver Roberts-Garratt, “Foucault’s Hegel Thesis: The ‘Tragic Destiny’ of Life and the ‘Being-There’ of Consciousness,” Foucault Studies, no. 36 (September 2024): 443-469, available at https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.i36.7227.
Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La Naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme. Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel(Paris: ENS Éditions, 2022).