
ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Rida and Habermas: A Gap Between Ethics and Politics
Both the rida and habermas share although again formulated in a totally opposed way is ultimately the idea of a gap between pure normativity and pragmatic politics. I claim that if you translate opening towards the otherness into simply a set of positive rules which guarantee which guarantee communication without distortion you already close yourself to the radical openness towards the other. The Christian legacy and lacon do not accept this let me just give you an example why do I think like this it's already boring how classical this example is but nonetheless just think about it and think on itHow would you locate the figure of Antigonet? If you really accept this premises of the Rydan Habermasian openness towards
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