\u2018Renegade\u2019 is not an insult, it\u2019s a description. It is quite clear to anyone that a person who lived and thought as you did between 1969 and 1972, and today is hand in glove with the Sarkozy clique, even going so far as to commit a Lacanian school to a disgusting and paradoxical support for the Libyan expedition and its eulogist Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy, is a renegade from leftism, to say nothing of Maoism.<\/em><\/p>\n Pourquoi du reste t\u2019offenser de cette description ? Tu me sembles plut\u00f4t devoir assumer et d\u00e9fendre ta ren\u00e9gation comme \u00e9tant celle du Mal au profit du Bien. Tu peux en somme l\u2019appeler une Conversion morale.<\/p>\n Disons cela: ce qui est pour toi une Conversion est pour moi une Ren\u00e9gation. Ton point-ce-vue est du reste celui d\u2019une majorit\u00e9 de tes contemporains, du moins en ce qui concerne les intellectuels. L\u2019archi-minoritaire, et celui qui fut et est insult\u00e9 \u2014 pour avoir refus\u00e9 d\u2019\u00eatre un ren\u00e9gat \u2014, c\u2019est moi, et non toi. Je fais avec depuis bien longtemps.<\/p>\n Why then do you take offence at this description? It seems to me you should rather be proud of it, and defend yourself as having reneged on the Bad in favour of the Good. You could even call it a moral Conversion.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s say it: what is Conversion for you is Renegacy for me. Your point of view, moreover, is that of the majority of your contemporaries, at least as far as intellectuals are concerned. The extreme minority, which was and is insulted \u2013 for having refused to renege \u2013 is me and not you. I\u2019ve lived with this for a long time already.<\/em><\/p>\n Tu te doutes que la lecture des confessions d\u2019un ren\u00e9gat n\u2019est pas pour moi une lecture prioritaire. Je lirai cependant ton factum un de ces jours, sans doute m\u00eame avec int\u00e9r\u00eat.<\/p>\n Quant au duel, n\u2019y songe pas! Bien \u00e9videmment, je ne me bats pas en duel avec un ren\u00e9gat.<\/p>\n You doubt whether the confessions of a renegade would be priority reading for me. But I shall read your pamphlet one day, even with interest.<\/em> Bien \u00e0 toi, Cher Jacques-Alain, Merci de m\u2019avoir fait parvenir ta lettre \u00e0 Peter Hallward et ta \u201cconfession d\u2019un ren\u00e9gat\u201d. \u201cRen\u00e9gat\u201d n\u2019est pas une insulte, c\u2019est une description. Il est \u00e9vident pour n\u2019importe qui que celui qui vivait et pensait comme toi entre 1969 et 1972, et qui aujourd\u2019hui fricote avec la clique de Sarkozy, poussant les choses … Continue reading “Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10547,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs for a debate, don\u2019t think of it! I certainly wouldn\u2019t debate with a renegade.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAlain
\nRegards<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Badiou_JAMiller\"](\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Badiou_JAMiller.jpg\")
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