Zupancic Alenka - Ethics Of The Real Kant And Lacan - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Ethics Of The Real Kant And Lacan
Author(s): Zupancic Alenka
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677870
Pages: 282 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2012
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 06
Category: Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)