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| + | If [[Zupancic]]'s book does not become a classic [[work]] of reference, the only conclusion will be that our academia is caught in an obscure [[desire]] to [[self]]-destruct. | ||
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| + | ==Book Description== | ||
| + | [[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. | ||
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| + | What is it that makes [[Nietzsche]] Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his [[time]]" but whose time has finally come -- the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can "share." Zupancic argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his [[being]] out of the mainstream of his or any time. | ||
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| + | To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the [[thought]] "lives on its own credit," Zupancic examines two aspects of his [[philosophy]]. First, in "Nietzsche as Metapsychologist," she revisits the principal Nietzschean themes -- his declaration of the [[death]] of God (which had a twofold [[meaning]], "God is [[dead]]" and "[[Christianity]] survived the death of God"), the ascetic [[ideal]], and [[nihilism]] -- as [[ideas]] that are very much [[present]] in our hedonist [[postmodern]] condition. Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's [[figure]] of the Noon and its consequences for his [[notion]] of the [[truth]]. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the [[moment]] when all shadows [[disappear]] but as the moment of "the shortest shadow" -- not the [[unity]] of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of [[splitting]], when "one turns into two." Zupancic argues that this notion of the Two as the minimal and irreducible [[difference]] within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension. | ||
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| + | ==About the Author== | ||
| + | Alenka Zupancic is a Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of [[Sciences]], [[Ljubljana]]. | ||
| + | Alenka Zupancic is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana. She is the [[author]] of Ethics of the [[Real]]: Kant and Lacan and editor-in-chief of the journal Problemi. | ||
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Contents
Slavoj Zizek
If Zupancic's book does not become a classic work of reference, the only conclusion will be that our academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.
Book Description
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.
Book Description
What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time has finally come -- the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can "share." Zupancic argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time.
To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the thought "lives on its own credit," Zupancic examines two aspects of his philosophy. First, in "Nietzsche as Metapsychologist," she revisits the principal Nietzschean themes -- his declaration of the death of God (which had a twofold meaning, "God is dead" and "Christianity survived the death of God"), the ascetic ideal, and nihilism -- as ideas that are very much present in our hedonist postmodern condition. Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of the Noon and its consequences for his notion of the truth. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the moment when all shadows disappear but as the moment of "the shortest shadow" -- not the unity of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of splitting, when "one turns into two." Zupancic argues that this notion of the Two as the minimal and irreducible difference within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.
About the Author
Alenka Zupancic is a Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana. Alenka Zupancic is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana. She is the author of Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan and editor-in-chief of the journal Problemi.
See Also
References
- Žižek, Slavoj. The Parallax View. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2006. p.43, 109, 352
- 37, 41-2, 68, 137, 165 Conversations
