
ZIZ005 Plea for Ethical Violence (2004)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Lebina's Grounding of Ethics in the Other's Face
The choice against the face for the third. This darkness is just as it is most elemental. Every preempting of the other in the guise of his face relegates the third to the faceless bedroom. It is only such a shift onto the third that grounds justice in the dimension of its broader through universality. Justice as blind, that means precisely it cannot be grounded in the relationship to others' face. And this structure I think is still a usable.
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