Hegel (see entry on Hegel), which, like other dialectical methods, relies on a contradictory process between opposing sides. Readers of Badiou’s more recent work will find a crucial developmental step in his work in ontology and find echoes of his current project of a ‘communist hypothesis’. In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegels theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Hegel’s dialectics refers to the particular dialectical method of argument employed by the 19th Century German philosopher, G.W.F.
According to Fukuyama, history has already reached its final stage, in. Francis Fukuyama, in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man famously argued for the Hegelian concept of the end of History. By translating, annotating and providing commentary to a contemporaneous text by Chinese Hegelian Zhang Shi Ying, Badiou and his collaborators attempt to diagnose the status of the dialectic in their common political and philosophical horizon. In terms of Hegel’s dialectic, the contradiction of views between socialism and capitalism resulted in a liberal democratic synthesis.
With the late 1970’s “triumphant restoration” in Europe, China and the United States, Badiou and his collaborators return to Hegel with a Chinese twist. The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic is the last in a trilogy of political-philosophical essays, preceded by Theory of Contradiction and On Ideology, written during the dark days at the end of the decade after May ‘68.
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