Volume 4, Issue 2, Fall 2010
Roman Ingarden
Nancy Billias
Pages 49-61
Ingarden and Badiou
A Meeting at the Crossroads
In its examination of the intersection of ethics and ontology, Roman Ingarden’s philosophy bears a striking resemblance to the thought of the contemporary
French philosopher Alain Badiou. Though no formal influence is claimed, this paper explores several ways in which Badiou’s theory of the event and existential agency is foreshadowed in the writings of Ingarden. In so doing, the author suggests the continued importance of this unjustly neglected philosopher for contemporary thinking on questions of value.