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"I have sometimes been confronted with the objection that conceiving of the ethical as empty leaves social normativity without a ground. My answer is that it is precisely that absence of ground and the possibility of signifying the resulting emptiness that makes life in society worth living."

It's something you need to bulldoze through, jeez

I didn't really care for chapter 5. I suppose it might feel less dense to a literary student, but for me, it was barely half a step from boring.

Jesus, I've had enough of Proust literary theory, thank you.

Ch. 3 is just demolishing me.