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’.
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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.
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