When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the revolution...
Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here...
«Hay que llevar al capital al reconocimiento del peso y de la importancia del bien común, y si el capital no está dispuesto a hacerlo, hay que obligarle»47.
The immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to see, refusing to ‘open your eyes’, as the angry...
If Substance is Life, is the Subject not Death? Insofar as, for Hegel, the basic feature of pre-subjective Life is the spurious infinity of the eternal reproduction of the life substance through the i...
There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is...
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took sla...
The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than himself. Rousseau is describing a precise libidinal mechanism: the inversion which generates the shift of the...
Someone asked Herr Keuner if there is a God. Herr Keuner said: I advise you to think about how your behaviour would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then we c...
In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world
A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready to betray: a friend is someone I can betray with love.
An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very forceful weapon - maybe it will become more and more forceful. And you sho...
We all know the elementary form of politeness, that of the empty symbolic gesture, a gesture-an offer-which is meant to be rejected. In John Irving's A Prayer forOwen Meany, after the little boy Owen...
The same philantropists who give millions for AIDS or education in tolerance have ruined the lives of thousands through financial speculation and thus created the conditions for the rise of the very i...
Porque si la democracia significa representación, se trata, en primer lugar, de la representación del sistema general que adopta sus formas. En otras palabras: la democracia electoral es representativ...
European civilisation finds it easier to tolerate differ-ent ways of life precisely on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the alienation of social life. O...
Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to be active, to...
«Nosotros somos aquellos a quienes hemos estado esperando» no significa que hayamos descubierto que somos el agente predestinado por la suerte (la necesidad histórica) para desempeñar la tarea; signif...
The ‘magic cave’ enables us to joyously accept the End. There is nothing morbid in it; such an acceptance is, on the contrary, the necessary background of concrete social engagement.