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'''[[w:Alain Badiou| Alain Badiou]]''' ([[born ]] 1937) is a [[French ]] [[philosopher]].
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*[[Truth ]] is a new [[word ]] in [[Europe ]] (and elsewhere).
**Original French: ''La vérité est un mot neuf en Europe (et ailleurs).''
**From ''L'être et l'événement''. [[Paris]]: Éditions du Seuil, 1988. ISBN 2020098628.**The quote is a variation on [[Louis de Saint-Just]], "[[Happiness ]] is a new [[idea ]] in Europe."
*Without [[mathematics]], we are blind.
**Original French: ''Hors les mathématiques, nous sommes aveugles.''
**From ''Court traité d'ontologie transitoire''. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998. ISBN 2020348853.
*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 separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.**From ''Manifesto for [[Philosophy]]''. Albany: [[State ]] [[University ]] of New York Press, 1999. ISBN 0791442209.
**The quote is a commentary on [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
*The [[cinema ]] is a [[place ]] of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.**From ''Considérations sur l'état actuel du cinéma'' (1999), translated as ''Philosophy and Cinema'' in ''Infinite [[Thought]]: truth and the [[return ]] of philosophy''. [[London]]: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
*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 readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of [[political ]] situations, of their causes and consequences.**From ''Philosophy and the 'war against [[terrorism]]''' in ''Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy''. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
*If there [[exists ]] one unique great imperial [[power ]] which is always convinced that its most brutal interests coincide with the [[Good]]; if it is [[true ]] that every year the USA spends more on their military budget than [[Russia]], China, [[France]], England and [[Germany ]] put together; and if that [[Nation]]-State, devoted to military [[excess]], has no [[public ]] idol [[other ]] than wealth, no allies other than servants, and no view of other peoples apart from an indifferent, commercial and cynical one; then the basic [[freedom ]] of States, peoples and individuals consists in doing everything and [[thinking ]] everything in [[order ]] to escape, as much as possible, from the commandments, interventions and interference of that imperial power.
**From ''Philosophy and the 'war against terrorism''' in ''Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy''. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
*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]]'.**From ''Vérité: forçage et innomable'', translated as ''Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable'' in ''[[Theoretical ]] Writings''. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.
*Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
**Original French: ''L'art atteste ce qu'il y a d'inhumain dans l'[[humain]].''
**From ''Le siècle''. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005. ISBN 2020579308.
*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 considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all [[times ]] caught in the dominant forms of the [[moment]].**From ''Can [[Change ]] Be Thought? A Dialogue with [[Alain ]] [[Badiou]]'' by [[Bruno Bosteels]], in ''[[Alain Badiou]]: Philosophy And Its [[Conditions]]'', edited by Gabriel Riera. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 0791465047.
