This Entrance Was Only Meant For You – Towards a Metaphysics of the Culture of Complaint
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Henrik Jøker Bjerre
Abstract
This paper diagnoses a certain culture of complaint, which is a curious formation in the history of mankind that emerges exactly at the moment where the claim, that the “grand narratives” have lost their meaning, goes from being merely an academic postulate to becoming a commonly accepted cultural dogma. Rather than joyfully accepting the liberation from the ostensibly repressive grand narratives, the reaction typical of the members of the culture of complaint has been to blame the big Other for his non-existence. Having discussed this point we proceed to discuss the possibility of genuine political action, given such a bleak prognosis of our own current post-modern predicament. Via the literary work of Franz Kafka, a discussion is opened about the possibilities and constraints on political action in an era where transcendent legitimization is no longer available. The discussion partners are (first) Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jacques Lacan.
© Walter de Gruyter 2010
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- Causal Exclusion and the Preservation of Causal Sufficiency
- Will and Narrative: Kierkegaard's Notion of the Person
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- The Right vs. the Good: John Dewey on Ethics
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- Musical Representation and the Evaluation of Musical Performances
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