If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We have the riots we deserve.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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It must on the contrary be named.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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