An Encounter with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary
Although Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is not often included in lists of contemporary French philosophers that appear in English language works on the subject lists that privilege names like Badiou, Laruelle, Malabou, Stiegler, Meillassoux, and now Garcia the appearance of his first translated book may indeed grant him a place on those lists. Until now, the North American reader of French philosophy will have only seen a substantial treatment of Kacem in the work of Alexander Galloway (whether through his CTheory review of Kacem's L'espirit du nihilisme or in his lectures at the Public School in New York) Apart from Galloway's work however, only a popular article in The New Inquiry provides an English introduction to Kacem's work.