Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 17, 1937
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed..
Without mathematics, we are blind..
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliam….
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….
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….
Art attests to what is inhuman in man..
Love is not a contract between two narcissists..
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me..
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise..
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….
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation..
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….
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….
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 ….
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death..
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests..
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure..
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible..
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….
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 ….