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The Big Other Doesn't Know.

Hagel: How can you have one without the other? I think there's this whole series of thinkers in the 20th century like Heidegger criticizing the they or Dasmann, Sart criticizing bad faith. All of them are – I think they rightfully think that we need to emancipate ourselves from this conformist bent of the other,. But what they miss is this public constitutive side of the other. And I think he would love the pandemic and the notion of social distancing. Like where a Sart sees this as hell as other people, Hegel thinks like it's the reign of the Holy Spirit.

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