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Quotes from Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil — Alain Badiou

born 1937 France

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Ethics defines man as a victim.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2000)

In the political domain, deprived of any collective politcal landmark, stripped of any notion of the 'meaning of History’; and no longer able to hope for or expect a social revolution, many intellectuals, along with much of public opinion, have been won over to the logic of a capitalist economy and a parliamentary democracy.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2000)

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