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Ethics, Life, Kant, Sade
Stumbled across this Juvenal quote in the introduction to Zupančič’s Ethics of the Real: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. [(you should) Hold it top...
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Way to make the English language really hop.
Throughout their life, so calm, so peaceful, Sweet old tradition was preserved: For them, in Butterweek the greaseful, Russian pancakes were always served; Two times a year they’d make their fast,...
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Gays, Zionism, Liberals
A reader’s review of Precarious Life by Judith Butler’s on Amazon: I have admired and enjoyed earlier works by Judith Butler, but this one came at, for her and this book, a most unpropitious moment in...
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A la guerre….
A brilliant end of the chapter L’infini in Le siècle of Alain Badiou! Speaking about the war of the century, a war for “the univocation of the Real, against the equivocations of the imaginary”. An idea...
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Goal of Psychoanalysis
Freud often insists that we should not mistake the latent thoughts that the analysis unearths under the manifest content for the unconscious desire itself, in persona-those latent thoughts pertain to...
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History Lesson?
Heidegger said in his Nietzsche lectures (1936-1940) Hölderlin und Nietzsche haben... ein Frageziechen vor der Aufgabe der Deutschen aufgerichtet, geschichtlich ihr Wesen zu finden. Werden wir dieses...
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Подсознание, язык…
Когда заходит речь о языковых обобщениях и выведениях языка на более высокую ступень, типа быковского: для того чтобы изменить человека надо изменить его лексику, или в этой передаче: человек, лучше...
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Кураев
Андрей Кураев в интревью Дождю: “Территория Православной церкови – это терриотрия антропологической катастрофы”. Просто красиво сказал.
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Demonic Gloom
There is a wonderful word in the Russian language that describes an especially outrageous sort of religious practices, targeted specifically at anything secular, usually in a violent manner:...
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Мама
Каждое утро, в течение первых двух-трех дней после маминой смерти, просыпаясь утром, и, несколько раз среди дня, я отчетливо, как высеченную в собственном мозгу, видел такую сцену. В парке, среди...
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