Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy are the last heirs of the great tradition of French philosophy of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Now it is impossible
think French philosophy outside the influence of the
German philosophy From Adorno and Benjamin to Heidegger and Marx,
passing through Freud and Nietzsche, on the one hand; and on the other, of
Sartre a Foucault, from Derrida to Althusser, arriving at Deleuze
and to Badiou and Nancy themselves, the French essay can be read as a rewrite, a debate, a dialogue, a criticism and
an appropriation of the German philosophical tradition.
German tradition in philosophy draws that map, which does not
It is other than that of the path carried out by a
as demanding and rigorous as radical.