Avital Ronell
How can someone act ethically if there isn’t an ultimate value?
Anxiety is the mood par excellence, it implicates that we’re not being responsible enough.
The feeling of responsibility might be the cause of irresponsibility.
When the «Other» existes as an object in relation to the subject, the knowledge of the object is only a presumption and the imagination that it can be grasped and fully comprehended by the subject, thus the objectifacation of the Other leads to irresponsible behaviour.
Q: So philosophical reasoning needs non-action as its premise? And philosophy can give us no clue to practice?
