Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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