Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary
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A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a comprehensive foray into Kacem’s elaborate philosophical system in twenty-seven discreet chapters, each dedicated to a single concept. In each chapter, he explicates a critical re-thinking of ordinary lived experiences - such as desire, irony, play - or traditional philosophical ideas – such as catharsis, mimesis, techne – in light of ‘the spirit of nihilism’ that marks the contemporary human condition.
Kacem gained notoriety in the domain of critical theory amid his controversial break with his mentor and leading contemporary philosopher, Alain Badiou. Transgression and the Inexistent lays out the essential concepts of his philosophical system: it is the most complete and synthetic book of his philosophical work, as well as being one of the most provocative in its claims. As a Francophone author engaging with contemporary world thought, he is able to develop novel philosophical perspectives that reach beyond the Middle East or the Continental, and the East/West binary. This is the book’s first publication in any language, constituting a much-awaited first translation of Kacem into English.
An extensive foray into the philosophy of Tunisian-born contemporary philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, whose work is available here for the first time in English.
Not yet published in its original French; the first publication in any language
An extensive introduction to and overview of the work of the Tunisian-originating contemporary philosopher Kacem
Draws upon Islamicate sources to develop perspectives which reach beyond “Islam” and "Middle East"
1. Foreword
2. Affect
3. Appropriation
4. Art 5. Aufhebung
6. Desire
7. Ontological Differend
8. Event
9. Expropriation
10. Woman
11. History
12. Man
13. Irony
14. Play
15. Katharsis
16. Logic
17. Evil
18. Mathematics
19. Mimesis
20. Nihilism
21. Parody
22. Politics
23. Representation
24. Singularity
25. Science
26. Sexuation
27. Technê
28. Transgression
29. Appendix: Propreptic to Being and Sexuation
An intriguing introduction to the most enigmatic of the new French philosophers: a self-taught thinker with a very personal voice, living in poverty in central France.
- Title: Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary
- Authors: P. Burcu Yalim, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
- Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472528629, 9781350021433, 1350021431, 147252862X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472528629
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T10:58:27Z
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian philosopher, actor and writer. He has published over ten books within a period of as many years.
P. Burcu Yalim is the translator of Foucault by Gilles Deleuze into Turkish.