Philosopher

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.