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Wonderful

Great book

In reality, subjective certitude cannot be secured, not because the world is nothing but the aleatory play of opaque signifiers, but because subjective certitude is an irreparably defective model of knowledge; it cannot correspond to or "adequate" a world that is gratuity rather than ground, poetry rather than necessity, rhetoric rather than dialectic. p.138

Ultimately, he says, truth and power must coincide. But the only way for them to coincide is for the ruling office to be imposed on one who has renounced it, that is, to be a thing received rather than seized. The fact that socrates expresses no interest in politics makes him, in Plato’s eyes, the “perfect candidate” for ruler: Plato thus “imposes” rule on Socrates by making him the founder of the ideal city.

Amazing book, this will be ranked with my favorites, tho it is quite hard.

The theme of beauty is absolutely the most important thing we have to recover. Post-modernity is essentially gnostic when it completely relegates God to a transcendent realm to which we have no access; it is a false apophaticism.