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G.D.: What did you understand to be the purpose of philosophy and your role as a philosopher?
S.Z.: Oh my God, I don't think there was a clear vision of philosophy! I'm almost tempted here to quote the jargonistic Lacanian statement, 'It was something in me more than myself which decided', because it wasn't even a clear idea.