Notes
1. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 1. Thank you to Richard Dienst who reminded me Jean-Luc Nancy and Ernst Bloch were ways of saying critical Heideggerian things. I should have remembered: see Ramsey Eric Ramsey, “A Politics of Dissatisfaction: The Heretical Marxisms of Reich and Bloch,” Rethinking Marxism 8 (1995): 24–38.
2. Jean-Luc Nancy, “Communism, The Word,” http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=126 (accessed October 31, 2010).
3. Ernst Bloch, “Elsewhere, Things Happen,” in Literary Essays, trans. Andrew Jordan and others (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 63.
4. Jacques Derrida, “Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism,” in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, ed. Chantal Mouffe (London: Routledge, 1996), 81. Of course, a critical questioning indebted to this type of thinking encounters each time the conditions of impossibility as well that are a part of the safeguarding and that deliver us over to our responsibility for being critical.
5. For a recent Kantian-inspired Marxist project opened by quasi-transcendental questioning, see Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation (Chicago: Open Court, 2008).
6. See Linda Wiener and Ramsey Eric Ramsey, Leaving Us to Wonder: An Essay on the Questions Science Can't Ask (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005).
7. Adam Phillips, “Learning to Live: Psychoanalysis as Education,” in Side Effects (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006), 155. Italics in original.
8. Theodore Adorno, “Education after Auschwitz,” in Critical Models, trans. Henry W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 200.
9. See Richard Dienst, The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good (New York: Verso, 2011) and Les Amis, Commemorating Epimetheus, trans. S. Pluháček (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2009).
10. Adorno, “Education,” 204.