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The following was taken from [http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/ Jodi Dean's I Cite]:
Eric Santner's [[discussion]] of miracles in his contribution to The [[Neighbor]] is wonderful. I have only just started going back through this, but I was struck with how beautifully and systematically he uses Rosenzweig to make [[good]] on the [[Lacanian]]/Zizekian proposition that miracles do happen.
Santner ([[reading]] Rosenzweig) posits [[thinking]] as a mode of attentiveness to a [[particular]] kind of address, to a signifying stress that accompanies our 'creaturely' [[life]]. He writes:
<blockquote>To use a [[Heideggerian]] locution, our throwness into the [[world]] does not simply mean that we alwasy find ourselves in the midst of a [[social]] [[formation]] that we did not choose (our [[language]], our [[family]], our [[society]], our [[class]], our [[gender]], and so on); it means, more importantly that this social formation in which we find ourselves immersed is itself permeated by [[inconsistency]] and [[incompleteness]], is itself haunted by a [[lack]] by which we are, in some peculiar way, addressed, 'excited,' to which we are in some fashion answerable.</blockquote>
[[Reality]] is fissured by lack. [[Symptoms]] thus acculmulate around this lack, symptoms of [[past]] failures to act, past failures to, as Santner writes, "suspend the force of the social bond--call it the dominant [[ideology]]--inhibiting [[acts]] of [[solidarity]] with society's '[[others]].'" At a particular [[moment]], these symptoms become legible as such, recognizable as missed opportunities. He writes:
<blockquote>Miracles happen when, upon registering their 'historical [[truth]],' we are able to act, to intervene into these symptoms and enter the [[space]] of possibilities opened thereby . . . Miracles happen when we find ourselves able to suspend a pattern ... The crucial [[thought]] in all of this that such failures/defense [[formations]] persist as a peculiar sort of stress in the [[individual]] and collective lives of those in some way linked to [[them]]. It is the [[signs]]/symptoms of such stress that await, as it were, the 'miraculous' now of their recognizability.</blockquote>
* [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]], [[Eric L. Santner]], and [[Kenneth Reinhard]]. '''''[[The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology|The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism Series)]]'''''. Chicago: February 14, 2006, New edition, Paperback, 240 pages, Language [[English]], ISBN: 0226707393. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226707393/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226707393/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226707393/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226707393/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226707393/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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