Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the min….

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them..

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me..

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separa….

We have the riots we deserve..

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 rea….

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism..

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 rea….

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself..

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has s….

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosop….

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure..

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are….

Love is not a contract between two narcissists..

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..

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first ….

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliam….

Without mathematics, we are blind..

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art..

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and….

To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with ….