The Making and Re-making of the Idea: The Search for Politics in Hegel, Marx, and Badiou

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2025-4-10

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Yücel, Yunus

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The main aim of this thesis is to try to look at the crisis and debate of radical politics after the collapse of the Soviet Union from a different perspective. This study is guided by the idea that the cause of the crisis of radical emancipatory politics is neither the changing conditions of capitalism, increasing authoritarianism, or the vanishing subject, but rather the lack of an idea to bind radical politics. Therefore, this thesis is an attempt to discuss how Hegel, Marx, and Badiou construct the relationship between ideas and politics. In discussing the relationship between ideas and radical politics, the thesis focuses on how the two are intertwined, conceptualized, and, ultimately, manifested. To do so, three key concepts, dialectic, history, and finally, the concept of the subject, are examined in detail to demonstrate how and why these three strands play a critical role in constructing ideas and politics. For this reason, this study aims to rethink this crisis of politics and the concept of idea and while trying to underline the necessity for repairing the broken link between politics and the idea.

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Idea, Politics, Dialectic, History, Subject

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114091

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis