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Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
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On the most superficial levels, what happened on 911 is clear, so there is reaction, retribution, revenge. On deeper levels many more difficult questions exist: what is it like to live in such a world today? What have I taken as certainties about my existence, that now has changed? The external world, the Real, has touched me, and I am no longer immune from it. These philosophers sit down and start a discussion about all this starting at the beginning. Are we creatures who have lost our the instinctual connection to the Real, to our animality, and now have extra-natural expectations? Well, bombs, falling planes, and crashing buildings have a way of disturbing that unique human perspective. There could not be two better thinkers to observe in conversation over these issues.
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