In short, what the sensitive liberals want is a thus try to deprive the French Revolution of its status as the founding event of modern democracy, re… - Slavoj Žižek

The Medium here is not the message, quite the opposite: the very medium that we use- the universal intersubjectivity of language-undermines the message.

In this precise sense, Kant was "the inventor of the philosophical history of philosophy": there are necessary stages in the development of philosophy, that is, one cannot directly get at the truth, one cannot begin wit it, philosophy necessarily began with metaphysical illusions. The path from illusion to its critical denunciation is the very core of philosophy, which means that successful ("true") philosophy is no longer defined by its truthful explanation of the totality of being, but by successfully accounting for the illusions, that is, by explaining not only why illusions are illusions, but also why they are structurally necessary, unavoidable, and not just accidents.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.