This book explores how Continental philosophy has limited the role of negativity.

What is it about?

This book discusses a range of contemporary thinkers: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Toni Negri, Bruno Latour and Alain Badiou. It argues that their work tends to a fundamentally affirmative view of the world and how this 'affirmationism' struggles with the problem of negativity and so of change. It aims to rehabilitate a notion of negativity.

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Why is it important?

This book provides a diagnosis of a critical problem for a whole range of work in Continental philosophy and the wider humanities - the tendency to affirm things as they are. It suggests the need to return to a hidden current of negativity that runs through this work and which can develop a radical new conception of political and social change.