Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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