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“... same reasons, Schmitt has also been useful to certain thinkers on the left – Derrida, Kojève, Alain Badiou, Jacob Taubes and, more recently, Slavoj Žižek. Schmitt’s appeal at this end of the spectrum is his evocation of a force that smashes the liberal façade of the dominant class, his endorsement of the virtue of antagonism when there is a ...”

“... a lot of familiar figures crop up in the narrative. After coaching, Sarfati is ‘perfect’ with Alain Badiou, ‘impeccable with Greta Thunberg and frankly majestic with Zemmour’. There are sly side-swipes for the benefit of insiders, as when someone asks innocently – about the former editor of Libération – ‘Isn’t Laurent Joffrin ...”

“... the ‘mysterious emergence of transcendental spontaneity’ from the negative gesture with Alain Badiou’s Truth-Event – an unpredictable happening that reveals the repressed truth of the existing situation. Events like Adam’s Fall, Christ’s death, and the French and Russian Revolutions are negative gestures which undermine the prevailing ...”