> Postmodern ethics merely restates the subjectivity of
modernist aesthetics, and Lacan gives us an especially
conservative version of this restatement.
First, the idea of aesthetics in modernity was never firmly established, hence Dialectic of Enlightenment (a macro-critique of Kant), despite what Habermas has floating around in his spheres. On a further note, Habermas *is* postmodern in this regard, because liberation stems from a postmodern alienation (systematically distorted communication), not modernist substance / antagonism. Second, Lacan isn't postmodern - *because* he doesn't reduce these antagonisms either to undecideablity (Derrida) or reconciliation (Habermas).
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