{"id":10219,"date":"2013-01-20T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2013-01-20T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:10:17","slug":"robert-pippin-reviews-ltn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/01\/20\/robert-pippin-reviews-ltn\/","title":{"rendered":"robert pippin reviews LTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pippin, Robert. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediationsjournal.org\/articles\/back-to-hegel\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBack to Hegel?\u201d <em>Mediations<\/em><\/a> 26.1-2 (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) 7-28.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Zadie Smith\u2019s trenchant summary is the best: <strong>States now \u201cde-regulate to privatize gain and re-regulate to nationalize loss<\/strong>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/jun\/02\/north-west-london-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYR Blog, \u00a0June 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let us designate the basic problem that the book addresses as the ontological problem of \u201csubjectivity\u201d; what is it to be a thinking, knowing and also acting and interacting subject in a material world? \u017di\u017eek begins by claiming that there are four main kinds of answers to such a question possible in the current \u201cideological-philosophical field\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>(i) scientific naturalism (brain science, Darwinism);<br \/>\n(ii) discursive historicism (Foucault, deconstruction);<br \/>\n(iii) New Age Western \u201cBuddhism\u201d;<br \/>\n(iv) some sort of transcendental finitude (culminating in Heidegger).<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek\u2019s thesis is that these options miss the correct one, which he calls the idea of a \u201cpre-transcendental gap or rupture (the Freudian name for which is the drive),\u201d and that this framework is what actually \u201cdesignates the very core of modern subjectivity.\u201d(6-7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippin, Robert. \u201cBack to Hegel?\u201d Mediations 26.1-2 (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) 7-28. Perhaps Zadie Smith\u2019s trenchant summary is the best: States now \u201cde-regulate to privatize gain and re-regulate to nationalize loss.\u201d NYR Blog, \u00a0June 2, 2012 Let us designate the basic problem that the book addresses as the ontological problem of \u201csubjectivity\u201d; what is it to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/01\/20\/robert-pippin-reviews-ltn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;robert pippin reviews LTN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek","tag-ltn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}