I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand. —James Baldwin
Reading Zizek, one is left with the disorienting and comfortless (though strangely cathartic) impression that everything you ever thought is simply wrong–in fact, simply stupid. And that goes even if you never really liked the people he’s mocking anyway.
1 October 2008 |
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Brian Hamilton-Vise is a Ph.D. student in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, where his research is in the history of Christian political and economic thought. His side interests are in the development of negative theology and in recent political theory. Email him at bdhamilton@gmail.com.
Ha! Very very true. Great blog, by the way.