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.
ALAIN BADIOUIn my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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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.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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