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Ethics of the Real - Kant and Lacan (Paperback)
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Ethics of the Real - Kant and Lacan (Paperback)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it
proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established
Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In
attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more
'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary - someone
who can help us with our own ethical dilemmas - many Kantian
scholars have glossed over its apparent paradoxes and impossible
claims. This book is concerned with doing exactly the opposite.
Kant, thank God, is not our contemporary; he stands against the
grain of our times. Lacan on the face of it appears the very
antithesis of Kant - the wild theorist of psychoanalysis compared
to the sober Enlightenment thinker. His concept of the Real,
however, provides perhaps the most useful backdrop to this new
interpretation of Kantian ethics. Constantly juxtaposing her
readings of the two philosophers. Alenka Zupancic summons up an
'ethics of the Real', and clears the ground for a radical
restoration of the disruptive element in ethics.
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