In the opening of The Sickness unto Death, Anti-Climacus establishes the essential relation to otherness that characterizes the human self. He also defines two different modes of failing to live in accordance with this relation, which are subsequently described as "feminine" and "masculine" despair. Starting from this somewhat surprising gendering of despair, the article compares Kierkegaard's understanding of self and other to that of psychoanalysis. It is claimed that psychoanalysis offers a fruitful reinterpretation of the meaning of "the Other," while Anti-Climacus, on the other hand, gives new inspiration to the analysis of the despair of being a sexed being.

The kinds of specifically ethical questions we can meaningfully ask about the environment are rapidly becoming fewer as the climate emergency intensifies. The article argues that there is something fundamentally inadequate about the traditional conceptions of ethics regarding the climate crisis because they all tend to presuppose that we can somehow get it right. The problem is that we got it wrong and must start dealing with the consequences.

The history of the Slovenian School is more diverse, and longer, than one might expect. To trace the origins of what is today often referred to as the Slovenian School, one has to go back to 1971, when Rastko Močnik and Slavoj Žižek started taking up contemporary French structuralism to find new approaches to understanding the events in Europe and elsewhere, from Che Guevara to the Prague Spring. This article tracks down the major historical points in the development of the school, as well as some of its major philosophical assumptions, and argues that it has never really established itself as one. And that this continues to be one of its major virtues.

Alenka Zupančič’ work on Immanuel Kant (Ethics of the Real, 2000) marks her entrance onto the international philosophical scene and places her among the three giants of contemporary Slovenien philosophy. In this article, Zupančič’ investigation of Kantian ethics is presented with a particular focus on the so called ‘logic of the act’, which Zupančič claims has been forgotten or repressed in recent Kant scholarship. By reading Kant with Lacan and showing how any act worthy of the name has a characteristic similar to Lacan’s concept of the drive, Zupančič brings forward a new, much more radical and a bit scary Kant – one that also represents a way of overcoming the moral nihilism of contemporary society.

Sexual norms are not universal. Today’s cultural and social norms regarding sexuality consist of many different attitudes, beliefs, desires and practices. This interview with two of the leading Danish experts in sexological studies and sexology discusses sexual norms and practices, sexual discourse, moralism and taboos in current Danish society.

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Det kan virke som om, seksualiteten er fanget i en form for historisk antinomi, en selvmodsigelse i modsatrettede lovmæssigheder, der på paradoksal vis eksisterer ved siden af hinanden. På den ene side er vi mere frigjorte end nogensinde, på den anden side er der moralisme og snerperi som aldrig før. Samtidig er også den akademiske verden præget af en blanding af akavethed og simpelt fravær af diskussion omkring seksualitetens sociale og politiske betydning. I dette nummer af Slagmark forsøger vi at åbne denne diskussion ved at betragte seksualitet som et fundamentalt vigtigt forhold i menneskenes liv, som manifesterer sig i mangfoldige former og med mange lag af historiske forudsætninger og implikationer. Vi har valgt ”Seksualiteter” som titel for at understrege denne mangfoldighed, der viser sig lige under overfladen af dikotomien mellem pornoficering og forskrækkethed. Ni meget forskellige bud på seksualitetens betydning fra ni meget forskellige forfattere er vores bud på et lille bidrag til en større offentlighed omkring seksualiteter.

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