We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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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 have the riots we deserve.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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