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 ….

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..

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation..

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

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise..

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

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests..

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….

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 ….

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….

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death..

We have the riots we deserve..

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

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….

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….

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is cons….

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….

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

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible..

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 must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from ….