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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Is There Really a Warrant in Lacan's Text?

Danny Cevallos: There's really not a warrant in Lacan's text for reading at that direction. Adorno and Horkheimer get to that position by being fierce critics of Kant. And then, Lacan gets there from pushing the drive, really, in all of his text. He says he had to go to a used bookstore to get it; there was not a copy that existed. "I don't know, maybe there's something to be said about...the similarity about a self-destructive focus on the text"

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