by Alenka Zupancic (Author), Alenka Zupancic (Author), Slavoj Zizek (Foreword)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 284
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Verso
Published: 16 Mar 2000
ISBN 10: 1859842186
ISBN 13: 9781859842188