badiou quote

Just got a book of Badiou’s writings (“Badiou: Infinite Thought” from Continuum books), opened it to a random page (42, to be exact) and found this:

I am convinced . . . that the world needs philosophy more than philosophy thinks.  Philosophy is ill, it might be dying, but I am sure that the world (the world, neither a God nor a prophet, but the world) is saying to philosophy: “Get up and walk!”