Response: Last Judgment on the Neighbor

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Notes

1. On the lack of the social relation, see Žižek (1989, 126). But see also Reinhard (2005, 32).

2. On transience as the interlocking feature of history and nature, see Adorno (2006, 134–5).

3. I refer here to Lacan’s mildly scandalous take on an episode from the life of Saint Martin and the lesson he draws therefrom: “In any encounter there’s a big difference in meaning between the response of philanthropy and that of love” (1992, 186).

4. The analogy comes from Reinhard (2005, 66).

5. For what it is worth, Badiou interprets Lacan’s question to mean “do not give up on that part of yourself that you do not know,” which he further refines to mean “do not give up on your own seizure by a truth-process” (2001, 47).

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George Edmondson

George Edmondson is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Neighboring Text and coeditor, with Klaus Mladek, of Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis.