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Loading... "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry”: Canadian political apologies as Lacanian driveby David Gaertner
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This paper makes the obvious but still important argument that the Canadian government's recently discovered penchant for apologies to those it has historically wronged (First Nations, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, basically everyone not white) is meant not to address or heal but to defer and play out any real, material reckoning. (Stephen Harper in particular likes the phrase "full apology," redolent of smug, unilateral closure, nay slammure.) The Lacanian language about drives and circling the libidinal object and the excremental remainder of the apology which is also the jouissance of the apology, and the failure-as-triumph, the neverending apology ceremony instead of "Perpetual Peace" (that one from Kant), is ornate, occasionally prettily so, but adds little. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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