Ästhetische Radikalität und politische Gewalt : Brecht und das soziale Imaginäre in Alain Badious Hermeneutik des 20. Jahrhunderts

Abstract

The French philosopher Alain Badiou attempts to derive new political impulses from twentieth-century aesthetic radicalism. This would, above all, exonorate the art of the Avant-garde from complicitousness with totalitarian politics in the first half of the century. Starting with a reconstruction of Badiou's point of departure, and a side glance at the interwar years, we subject Badiou's hermeneutics of the century to a critical examination. One can principally agree with Badiou's differentiation between political and aesthetic radicalism, but his interpretation of Brecht's Maßnahme reveals a certain one-sidedness.