Somehow, Learning to Live: On Being Critical

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 1. Thank you to Richard Dienst who reminded me Jean-Luc Nancy and Ernst Bloch were ways of saying critical Heideggerian things. I should have remembered: see Ramsey Eric Ramsey, “A Politics of Dissatisfaction: The Heretical Marxisms of Reich and Bloch,” Rethinking Marxism 8 (1995): 24–38. 2. Jean-Luc Nancy, “Communism, The Word,” http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=126 (accessed October 31, 2010). 3. Ernst Bloch, “Elsewhere, Things Happen,” in Literary Essays, trans. Andrew Jordan and others (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 63. 4. Jacques Derrida, “Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism,” in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, ed. Chantal Mouffe (London: Routledge, 1996), 81. Of course, a critical questioning indebted to this type of thinking encounters each time the conditions of impossibility as well that are a part of the safeguarding and that deliver us over to our responsibility for being critical. 5. For a recent Kantian-inspired Marxist project opened by quasi-transcendental questioning, see Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation (Chicago: Open Court, 2008). 6. See Linda Wiener and Ramsey Eric Ramsey, Leaving Us to Wonder: An Essay on the Questions Science Can't Ask (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005). 7. Adam Phillips, “Learning to Live: Psychoanalysis as Education,” in Side Effects (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006), 155. Italics in original. 8. Theodore Adorno, “Education after Auschwitz,” in Critical Models, trans. Henry W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 200. 9. See Richard Dienst, The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good (New York: Verso, 2011) and Les Amis, Commemorating Epimetheus, trans. S. Pluháček (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2009). 10. Adorno, “Education,” 204. Additional informationNotes on contributorsRamsey Eric RamseyRamsey Eric Ramsey is Associate Dean of Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University at the West campus