1. Descartes, Discourse 3. (For an english translation see Discourse on Method and the Meditations, Penguin, London 1968, p.45-46. Our translation varies from this one almost everywhere in this text.)

2. J. Derrida, "Devant la loi", in A. Phillips Griffiths, ed., Philosophy and Literature, London 1984, p.181.

3. Descartes, ibid. (Engl. trans., p.48.)

4. S. Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, London 1989, p.80.

5. Descartes, ibid. (Engl. trans., p.51)

6. Ibid. (Engl. trans., p.47) Zizek, op. cit., p.83.

7. Zizek,op. cit., p.83.

8. Descartes, Philosophical Letters, Oxford (n.d.), p.200-201.

9. Ibid., p.11.

10. W. Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, Frankfurt a. M. 1987, p.77.

11. Descartes, Philosophical Letters, p.11.

12. Derrida, "Force de loi", in Cardozo Law Review, 11:5-6/1991, p.942.

13. J. Deleuze, Coldness and Cruelty, London 1991, p.156.

14. Benjamin, op. cit., p.

15. Zizek, "Opscenost vlasti" ("The Obscenity of Power"), Theoria 3/1983, p.11.

16.Deleuze, ibid.

17. Ibid.