Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 17, 1937
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible..
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to o….
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always..
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclid….
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, dev….
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere)..
Art attests to what is inhuman in man..
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. Univer….
Those who have nothing have only their discipline..
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….
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise..
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation..
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..
Love is not a contract between two narcissists..
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….
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliam….
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure..
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….
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art..
Without mathematics, we are blind..
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are….