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Among the many notions contested throughout the history of philosophy, few remain as deeply problematic as does the concept of experience. Although the present volume refrains from repeating that gesture by which experience is either uncritically accepted or all too quickly dismissed today, the essays collected here remain the contemporary of those polemics insofar as each seeks to both further determine the limits of experience as well as salvage something essential from that which takes place at the very limit of political and aesthetic experience. Included here are critical readings of such seminal figures as Locke, Kant, Nietzsche, Adorno, Foucault, Fanon, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou, and Rancière.

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Gerhard Unterthurner ist Universitätsassistent am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien.

Erik M. Vogt, geboren in Oberösterreich, ist Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor für Philosophie am Department of Philosophy des Trinity College in Hartford, USA. Er ist an der Universität Wien habilitiert und unterrichtete u. a. an der Loyola University in New Orleans ebenso wie am Wadham College in Oxford (England) und an der Universität Wien.

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