| Description |
xiii, 266 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Wo es war |
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Wo es war.
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| Contents |
Foreword: Why Is Kant Worth Fighting For? / Slavoj Zizek -- 1. The (Moral-)Pathology of Everyday Life -- 2. The Subject of Freedom -- What freedom? -- What subject? -- 3. The Lie -- Kant and 'the right to lie' -- The Unconditional -- The Sadeian trap -- 4. From the Logic of Illusion to the Postulates -- The 'stormy ocean' of illusion -- 'Person also means mask' -- The passage to the postulates -- 5. Good and Evil -- Fantasy within the limits of reason alone -- The logic of suicide -- Degrees of evil -- Like angels, like devils -- The act as 'subjectivation without subject' -- 6. The Act and Evil in Literature -- The case of Valmont -- The case of Don Juan -- 7. Between the Moral Law and the Superego -- The quantum of affect -- The sublime and the logic of the superego -- The status of the law -- 8. Ethics and Tragedy in Psychoanalysis -- Some preliminary remarks -- Oedipus, or the Outcast of the Signifier -- The theft of desire - and the mother in exchange -- The death of the Thing -- What is a father? -- What shall we do with Oedipus? -- The hostage of the word -- Sygne, or the Enjoyment of the Remainder -- Ethics and terror -- Enjoyment - my neighbour -- The Real in ethics -- From pure desire to the drive -- 9. Thus . |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Ethics.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Ethics.
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
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Ethics, Modern.
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Ethics.
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| LC no. |
00032468 |
| ISBN |
1859842186 (paperback) |
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1859847242 |
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