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.

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

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.

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.