Forget the Radcliffe Panopticon; the Philosophy Library on Merton Street really has absorbed the ways of thinking of its past habitués.
From Plato to Rawls, the philosophers find their home in easily accessible self-service shelves in a well-lit room furnished with wooden desks and windows opening onto the garden… except those perennial miscreants Adorno, Habermas, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault and Derrida, whose books are shut up in a cramped dark closet as far away from the entrance as possible.
Can we all agree that justice is about giving people what they are entitled to?
So shouldn’t we be calling them “justice shops” not “charity shops”?
A great example of a chocolate laxative turned up in my pigeon hole this morning.
A chocolate laxative is Zizek’s phrase for the “immediate coincidence of opposites” – of the source of damage and its remedy.
As Zizek says, “[this] structure is clearly present in how we relate to capitalist profiteering: it is OK IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you return (part of) them to the needy… “
There are so many examples of chocolate laxatives around that I thought I would start collecting.
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