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Badiou’s ahistorical century

Alain Badiou, The Century, trans., with commentary and notes, Alberto Toscano (USA: Polity Press, 2007), 233 pp. + index

College of the Holy Cross, USA

This review essay explores Alain Badiou’s paradoxical attempt to give a philosophical account of the 20th century (in his text The Century ) which is not understood along the lines of history. As an example of Badiou’s project of ‘subtractive formalization’, The Century amounts to an essentially ahistorical treatment of a historical period.

Key Words: Alain Badiou • continental philosophy • history • political philosophy

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 35, No. 9, 1143-1149 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0191453709343404


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