In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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 absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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 say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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