Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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 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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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