It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.