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In contemporary science we are always confronted with the conditions of its formalization and the ability to rely on the independence and functionality of its axioms and the validity of its models. Hence, a true scientific thought can be the product of only those sciences that deem themselves worthy of the name.

Philosophy attributes to mathematics the exclusive capacity of constructing pure knowledge – i.e. the thinking (of ideas) – reserving for itself the modes of its representation. In the first part of the article, we briefly trace the reverberations of representation stemming from mathematics in the thought from Descartes, Kant to Heidegger, and investigate how they unfold and influence the contemporary philosophies of Alain Badiou and Cornelius Castoriadis.

The article addresses how Immanuel Kant, Theodor Adorno, and Alain Badiou can come surprisingly close, provided we invoke Marx's value form at the centre of commodity exchange.

In the background of our investigation we will succumb to a provisional thesis, which will also act as the proximate aim of this article: The “marginalist revolution” does not resemble the Copernican type of a revolution – an absolute modification of the scientific field.

In the background of our investigation we will succumb to a provisional thesis, which will also act as the proximate aim of this article: The “marginalist revolution” does not resemble the Copernican type of a revolution – an absolute modification of the scientific field.

In this article, we will try to trace, illuminate and articulate the “scientific break” from the objective to subjective value that occurred when economic science progressed from its classical period, proceeding by its critique (of political economy) and finishing up with the marginalist revolution.

In this essay we thus propose a juxtaposition of Hegel’s vis-à-vis Badiou’s or Rancière’s position on the notions Police/State of Situation and Corporation by highlighting Hegel’s affinity to political economy and his progression towards the institutions of the state, focusing primarily on economical notions.