From: "Colin Wight" <Colin.Wight-AT-aber.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: BHA: various queries
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:31:44 +0100


Hi Jan,

On the Bhaskar Zizek relationship, you rightly note;

whose ? Bhaskar's "absolute Love" or Zizek's "big Other" ?

Of course, "absolute love" could be absolute love for the "big Other".

Anyway, sorry I wasn't been too flippant, really what did you mean by TIC?

Also, I totally agree with your assessment about the "now GOD", "now not
God", "now new GOdhead" situation, but I suppose I find it worrying that
Bhaskar not only seems not to be critical of it, but seems to be trying to
locate himeslf at the centre of it. I have heard a rumour (and sources will
remain anon) that he has hired himeslf a PR person and is planning a series
of lectures in the US presenting the views of his new book. If this
transpires we should all be very wary of being invited to the 10th
International Conference of CR somewhere deep in the jungles of Honduras or
somewhere like that. Of course, now I am being very flippant. But then again
you did ask what I thought of:

>
>                and what dayatink of this one:
>
>    " ... He lives! He lives! This commences the driving impulse
>    of the book - love for, and desire to be one with, the divine -
>    the desire besides and by which all other desires and ultimately
>    itself (for when it is achieved, it is no longer desire but reality)
>    fade or pale into insignificance. Union with the beloved! the
>    cosmic beloved, the Lord." [EW:76]
>

See above. Honduras here I come. Incidentally, my Powerpoint slides are for
lectures, but obviously I'm not opposed to workshops and I was genuinely
interested in what you might do them on in relation to the new book.

Cheers,

=================================Dr. Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Tel: 01970 621769
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~cow
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