“the subject”

Now that Levi’s blog is apparently disconnected from the feed, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, I’ve been missing a lot of his posts until some days after they go up.

As for his most recent post, you all already know that I agree with the following, but I thought it was phrased especially effectively here:

“…I have to ask, what in the hell is up with French continental philosophy’s obsession with the subject. Now please understand, when I ask this question I’m not asking it seriously. I know that the question of the subject has somehow come to be seen as the crucial and burning question of how change is possible. But to be quite honest, after going through all my Lacanian, Zizekian, and Badiouian escapades, I have to confess that I’m left scratching my head as to how the question contributes anything to producing change beyond providing a sort of pep rally for demoralized leftists living in a neoliberal world.”