For a Politics of the Common Good by Alain Badiou & Peter Engelmann

Author:Alain Badiou & Peter Engelmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509535064
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Badiou is referring to the Central African currency CA Franc and the West African CFA Franc. The countries in which these currencies are used form the CFA Franc Zone.

2. Badiou’s quotation from Jaurès differs somewhat from the standard formulation. Normally the statement is reported as ‘Capitalism beats war within it, just as the cloud bears the storm’; neither version is entirely correct, however. The original wording is ‘Toujours votre société violente et chaotique, même quand elle veut la paix, même quand est à l’état apparent repos, porte en elle la guerre, comme une nuée dormante porte l’orage.’ [Your violent and chaotic society, even if it wants peace, even if it is seemingly in a state of calm, bears war within it, just as a sleeping cloud bears the storm.] (Jean Jaurès, ‘7 mars 1895, à la Chambre des communes’, in Textes choisis [Paris: Les Éditions socialies, 1959], p. 88.)

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