Sublime

Its imperative is “Live with this Idea and no other,” whereas the contemporary imperative, let me repeat, is: “Live without any Ideas.”

what the philosopher can contribute to politics is not at all the will to power, but disinterestedness.

The first is the never-ending defense of capitalism and its empty “freedoms,” undermined as they are by the sterile neutrality of market determination alone.

symbolic organization.

The result is a historic crisis of symbolization, in which young people today are suffering their disorientation.

These are two extreme but real positions. Between them, there is the acceptance of everyday conditioning, making oneself into a fit commodity for international trade, which can also be called “pursuing a career,” or, in Sarkozy’s terms, “being deserving.”

This conviction – which I sometimes call “the communist Idea” – holds that, after the inevitable abandonment of tradition has been accepted, in the very process of this abandonment, we must work to create an egalitarian symbolization that will guide, code, and form the peaceful subjective basis for the collectivization of resources, the effective e