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

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

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.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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.

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.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder