Simon Critchley Quotes - Page 3

• Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held beliefs. To have such an anchor means being committed to a specific community. The only way Obama can overcome his sense of detachment and resolve his mother's dilemma is through a commitment to Christianity.

  Simon Critchley

  Mother, Mean, Commitment

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• Lo que pasa con el humor es que el super-yo también está en juego, así que lo que me interesó, particularmente en el último capítulo que es clave para el libro -y nadie parece haber recogido esto en los escritos sobre Freud- es que, en el último Freud, la esencia del humor es la capacidad de mirarme a mí mismo y encontrarme ridículo. Eso me hace reír.

  Simon Critchley

  Book, Writing, Keys

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• So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation.

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  Struggle, Europe, Vision

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

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  Father, Successful, Attachment

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