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Ethics of the real : Kant, Lacan

Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility - impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on us.
Print Book, English, 2000
Verso, London, 2000
xiii, 266 p. ; 19 cm.
9781859842188, 9781859847244, 1859842186, 1859847242
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