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 BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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