A review by miguel
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan by Alenka Zupančič

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.