Abstract

This article analyses the different interpretation held of Heidegger, Vattimo and Badiou about the concept of «Event». For Heidegger and Vattimo, Event is a form of self-giving of being that differs completely to the western metaphysical tradition’s form of thinking being-and time. This hermeneutical thought can be considered as an active nihilism. The concept of Event in Badiou is quite different. For the French Philosopher, there is some newness in being: it can be possible to think novelty. The philosophy of Badiou can then bring us news instruments to think novelty, radical changes and discontinuity in the historical process.