| Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan Contributor(s): Zupancic, Alenka (Author), Zizek, Slavoj (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1859842186 ISBN-13: 9781859842188 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Kant, sober Enlightenment thinker and philosopher's philosopher, seems the very antithesis of Lacan, the "wild theorist" of psychoanalysis. But, drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, Alenka Zupancic here demonstrates that the two thinkers stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -- impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on us. Moreover, both are thinkers of desire, of the ethics of desire and the desire for ethics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 00032468 |
| Series: Wo Es War |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility - impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on us. |