Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.