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 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...
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...
The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn’t know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the b...
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...
On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date heralded the happy 90’s, the Francis Fukuyama dream of the end of history –the...
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
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...
Even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.
One cannot look objectively at oneself and locate oneself in reality; and the task is to think this impossibility itself as an ontological fact, not only as an epistemological limitation. In other wor...
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...
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...
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to un...
Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day pr...
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...
Portanto, uma nova classe global vem surgindo, com, digamos, passaporte indiano, castelo na Escócia, apartamento em Manhattan e ilha particular no Caribe. O paradoxo é que os membros dessa classe glob...
«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...
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...