In the article the author addresses the meaning of Alain Badiou’s idea that philosophy thinks under the condition of politics by looking at a 1977 text, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, written during a period before this very idea, articulated by a “theory of conditions”, had been developed. The peculiarity of this text not only attests to the powerful set of political, historical, geographical, and linguistic factors at work in this difficult period in Badiou’s thought, but also enables a different sort of insight into the messy grounds from which the late formation of his more mature work developed, including Theory of the Subject, written just a few years later, and the two volumes of Being and Event.Avtor v svojem članku obravnava pomen Badioujeve ideje, da filozofija misli pod pogojem politike, na podlagi reference na njegov tekst iz leta 1977 Racionalno jedro heglovske dialektike, ki je bil napisan v času, ko omenjena ideja, ki jo artikulira »teorija pogojev«, še ni bila razvita. Posebnost tega teksta ne priča samo o močni množici političnih, zgodovinskih, geografskih in jezikovnih dejavnikov, ki so na delu v tem težkem obdobju v Badioujevi misli, ampak nam tudi dopuščajo drugačen uvid v zapletene osnove, iz katerih je kasnejše oblikovanje njegovega zrelejšega dela razvilo tudi Teorijo subjekta, ki je bila napisana samo nekaj let kasneje, in oba zvezka Biti in dogodk
