Do you remember why God died in Nietzsche? Because he saw the ugliness of the humans he created. It’s in Zarathustra, book four, the part that no one reads.
And it’s the same with European philosophy, which will die when it sees – really sees – UK European philosophy stupidity. When it reads the introductory texts written by UK European philosophers. Badiou will die when he reads the thirty-two introductions to his thought. He will! That’s what Nancy died of: commentary. The forty-four thousand papers on his work.
Of course, we’re worse than the introducers, the contextualisers, the Badiou Reader compilers. Because we have higher ambitions than to explain, which is the disaster. We actually have ambition – how grotesque!
A truly European intellect would see it and then kill himself. Like Nietzsche’s God. But look at us, just living and living and living.
Work in Progress 