“Keenan’s book sets the record straight once and for all. The absence of unambiguous universal standards is the precondition of ethical responsibility; it forces us to engage ourselves fully, without any metaphysical alibi. The lesson of deconstruction is not that we are not responsible since we are merely ‘spoken by’ the Text, but, on the contrary, that every apparently neutral position already hinges on an unacknowledged ethico-political choice. For that reason, Fables of Responsibility is infinitely more important than a scholarly treatise on literature and politics. It proposes an answer to today’s fundamental ethical problem; how is ethics possible in the disenchanted, post-metaphysical universe of contingency and finitude?”
–Slavoj Žižek, Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana
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