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To resume again...
A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other II
J - A
MILLER
Hegel, Kant, Lacan
ALAIN BADIOU
Triggering Determinants in Anorexia
MASSIMO RECALCATI
Confraternity of the Faithless:
Wilde's Christianity
SIMON CRITCHLEY
Fairly Orthodox Anarchist-Libertarian
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ
To the Exhausting Nude...
JEAN-LUC NANCY
From objet a to Subtraction
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
CATHY LEBOWITZ
interviews
JOSEFINA AYERZA
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For such an act of self-realization, Wilde insists, neither religion nor morality nor reason can help. This is because each of these faculties requires the invocation of some sort of external agency. Morality, for Wilde, is about the sanction of externally imposed law and must therefore be rejected. Wilde says that he is, "One of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws". Interestingly, it is in exactly these terms that he describes the morality of Christ later in De profundis. Christ's morality is sheer sympathy with the other and his conception of justice is poetic, "For him there were no laws: there were exceptions merely".
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Art: Adam Helms Untitled Portrait (Zarqa) - double sided silkscreen on vellum, 2007
courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery.
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