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Simmel's and Lacan's Ethics of the Exception

"Your money or your life?" This unfriendly question posed by English robbers in the Middle Ages was rhetorical. The robbers were not interested in the answer, but rather in the money. But Georg Simmel and Jacques Lacan would have been, since money and life concerns the relation between the rule and its possible exception. Both pose the robbers' question in their work, and both unequivocally choose life. Yet, their answers are contradictory, not only because they have a different understanding of "money," but because they call for opposite ethical ways to deal with the exception. Each chooses life without money....