http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEthanwashere?feature=watch
This is from the Word Document of LTN. All page references are to this doc. Where indicated I’ll try to cross ref to the book as well.
Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today, (Chapter 4 pp. 193-240)
I want to succinctly summarize the main arguments of this important section of the book.
On page 223 Ž quotes Asad responding to Butler’s query regarding where his theoretical critque of liberalism is leading. btw, I back in the day, read this book Is Critique Secular?
“there can be no abstract answer to this question because it is precisely the implications of things said and done in different circumstances that one tries to understand … one should be prepared for the fact that what one aims at in one’s thinking may be less significant than where one ends up … in the process of thinking one should be open to ending up in unanticipated places―whether these produce satisfaction or desire, discomfort or horror.” [Ž quoting Asad]
Is Ž here simply making the point that we can’t predict the consequences of our actions? I act freely when I know I’m following my inner necessity, is bunk for Ž because he’s trying to establish retroactive hegelian thing.