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viernes, 16 de julio de 2010

Going for the obscene third choice...

Robert Frost y sus vecinos que arreglan muros.
La idea del vecino.

La idea de la engañosa tolerancia.
No es posible llevarle nunca la delantera en la discusión de las ideas, ni siquiera cuando el libro llevaba más tiempo en mis manos.

In a well-known passage from his Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre deployed the dilemma of a young man in France in 1942, torn between the duty to help his lone, ill mother and the duty to enter the Resistance and fight the Germans; Sartre's point is, of course, that there is no a priori answer to this dilemma. The young man needs to make a decision grounded only in his own abyssal freedom and assume full responsibility for it. An obscene third way out of the dilemma would have been to advise the young man to tell his mother that he will join the Resistance, and to tell his Resistance friends that he will take care of his mother, while, in reality, withdrawing to a secluded place and studying...


Zizek. Violence.

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