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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Those who have nothing have only their 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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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