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"The evolutionary notion of dialectical process tells us that the result is not just a dead body, that it does not stand alone, in abstraction from the process that engendered it: in this process, different moments first appeared in their unilateral form, while the final synthesis gathers them as sublated, maintaining their rational core."

"the true idea of the Christian collective was realized, but outside of the Church...it survived in other institutions, from revolutionary political parties to psychoanalytic societies...it is thus only in post-religious 'atheist' radical emancipatory collectives that we find the actualization of the idea of the Christiant collective—the necessary consequence of the 'atheistic' nature of Christianity itself."

"God (as subject supposed to know, as big Other, as the ultimate addressee beyond all empirical addresses) is a permanent constitutive structure of language."

6% "sophists broke down the mythical order of words and things...philosophy proper can only be understood as a reaction to this as an attempt to close the gap."

"the most elementary figure of dialectical reversal resides in transposing an epistemological obstacle into the thing itself, as its ontological failure (what appears to us as our inability to know the thing indicates a crack in the thing itself, so that our very failure to reach the full truth is the indicator of truth)."