"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."

"Before anything can be, there must be made nothing; prior to this contraction, nothing is not – where, after all, would it be?"

"We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation."

"If one needs a dwelling place to start thinking, an artwork can serve as a kind of shelter where thinking can take place. "

"Without clear descriptions, definitions, or examples of “woke”, it may seem Neiman is battling a series of straw-people."

"The primacy of the brain functions as a something of a barometer for how we have come to be governed."

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."

"Emotions are based rather on affective concerns, concerns over what really matters to the subjects­­ – what we “give a damn” about."

"Selfhood is not only what allows us to mark our difference to others, it is also what permits us to share a perspective with them."

"The phenomenon of 'continental' philosophy or even 'French theory' is a thoroughly Anglophone one."