A CLARIFICATION

With regard to the recent accusations about my plagiarism, here is what happened.
When I was writing the text on Derrida which contains the problematic passages, a
friend told me about Kevin Macdonald's theories, and I asked him to send me a brief
resume. The friend send it to me, assuring me that I can use it freely since it merely
resumes another's line of thought. Consequently, I did just that and I sincerely
apologize for not knowing that my friend's resume was largely borrowed from Stanley
Hornbeck's review of Macdonald's book. (These passages are also taken over in Part
III, Chapter 1, of my book The Parallax View.) As any reader can quickly establish,
the problematic passages are purely informative, a report on another's theory for
which I have no affinity whatsoever; all I do after this brief resume is quickly dismiss
Macdonald's theory as a new chapter in the long process of the destruction of
Reason. In no way can I thus be accused of plagiarizing another's line of thought, of
stealing ideas. I nonetheless deeply regret the incident.

Slavoj iek, July 2014.