Sublime

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

As for its symbolic functions of initiation, the contemporary “democratic” state is bankrupt.

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

Le danger existe, d'Alain à Aron, en passant par Camus, de ne pas trouver le bon équilibre et de sacrifier la philosophie au fait divers – le contraire ne posant pas de problème.

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