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.
ALAIN BADIOULove 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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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