A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

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.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

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

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?