In the interest of continuing and deepening our conversations on this semester--and as a response to the limitations of Oncourse Forum posting--we've created this blog-space. This can become as creative (and crucial) a space for our work together as you wish, so use it as you see fit. Rather than "require" a certain frequency of posting, we'd rather see what materializes over the course of the semester.
I've imported some of the questions raised on the Oncourse forums to this initial post. Those forums suggest that we have a number of questions on the table, whether first order (i.e. clarifications) or second order (i.e. thought experiments as tests of these theories). These seem to relate to the following categories:
1) Neighbor-love as distinct from "caritas" or "fellow-feeling": i.e. what's all this about jouissance?
2) Redemption occurring in the now rather than future: how does Reinhard's consideration of temporality engage with "love of neighbor" as a redemptive force?
3) The neighbor as "faceless monster," as Zizek puts it--not one we find alluring, but one who demands our attention and love even though we do not find him or her in any way alluring.
Reply here--or make your own post--on these or any other issues. Most of all, welcome!
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