asher__s's review
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
really special book. exciting throughout - this is not a dry book. not sure how one could approach the topic of ethics without contending with Alenka’s approach (especially through her discussion of Paul Claudel’s figure of Sygne - I wasn’t familiar with this work but Alenka gave a solid summary). It would be a big loss to read the More Famous Slovenian Žižek and skip Zupančič.
miguel's review against another edition
5.0
The notoriously difficult Zupančič (an unjustly earned reputation, if you ask me) offers a lucid and engaging reading of Kant in this text with the added bonus of some mediation through Lacan's formulations. Zupančič draws comparisons between the logical maneuverings of Kant and Lacan to make clear the content of Kant's ethics and eventually develop an ethical structure that contains drives in such a way that the notion of ethics does not become absurd or irrelevant. This ethics is beyond positioning the extenuation and propagation of human life as the highest good. Kant's paradigmatic shift in the notion of the subject is essential for facilitating the formulation of such an ethics.
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