Imre Szemán Quotes

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The Universal, in the name of which an oppressive particularity came to dominate the globe, suddenly seems the last bastion against a neoliberal world order that is happy enough to maintain differences... as long as they are subsumed without resistance within the global market.

Imre Szemán

The final dismantling of the great master narratives is itself a grand narrative—why else would people get so excited about it?

Imre Szemán

The task facing philosophy today is to examine its filiations to its most hallowed concepts and to consider anew their productivity.... The result of this task might be to see old concepts as more productive than new ones, which suffer not merely from the fact that they are inevitably expressions of the general conditions of possibility of the present moment, but also because of the way in which the eternal production of the new is linked more strongly than ever to the basic drive of capitalism.

Imre Szemán