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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...the [[right]] way to succeed in the [[revolution]], which was based on a [[Marxist]] approach. Indeed, at that [[time]] Lenin became interested in [[Marxism]] ...ge Social Democratic parties of Europe (at that time [[self]]-described as Marxist), including luminaries such as [[Karl Kautsky]], supported their various co
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• Louis Althusser
  ...es. Althusser is commonly referred to as a [[Structural Marxism|Structural Marxist]], although his [[relationship]] to [[other]] [[schools]] of [[French]] [[s The [[work]] of French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser is important for Žižek in a variety of ways.
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• Alain Badiou
  ...([[Vincennes]]-Saint Denis), which was a bastion of counter-[[cultural]] [[thought]]. There he engaged in fierce intellectual debates with fellow professors [ *[http://students.washington.edu/schenold/badiou/ Blooded by Thought - Bibliography, Resource (updated 04.01.2006)]
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• Semiotics
  ...from previous [[philosophers]] such as Plato or the [[Scholastic]]s, who [[thought]] that there must be some connection between a signifier and the object it ...ons has led some to [[demonization|demonise]] elements of the subject as [[Marxist]], [[nihilist]], etc. (e.g. [[critical discourse analysis]] in [[Postmodern
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...ct on fields as diverse as [[literature]] ([[Kafka]]), [[film]], [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[ ...During the 19th century, the dominant trend in [[western world|Western]] thought was [[positivism]], which subscribed to the [[belief]] that [[people]] coul
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...[[University of Rome]], where he wrote a [[thesis]] on the [[political]] [[thought]] of [[Simone Weil]]. Agamben participated in [[Martin Heidegger]]'s Le Tho ...y]] draws from [[Michel Foucault]] as well as from Italian neo-[[marxist]] thought. He frequently cites [[Carl Schmitt]] and Walter [[Benjamin]]. While someti
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...Heidelberg to write a dissertation on the [[concept]] of [[love]] in the [[thought]] of Saint [[Augustine]], under the direction of the existentialist philoso ...for [[Paris]], where she met and befriended the [[literary]] critic and [[Marxist]] [[mystic]] Walter [[Benjamin]]. While in [[France]], Arendt worked to sup
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• Roland Barthes
  ...l piece that would investigate the [[logical]] ends of [[structuralist]] [[thought]]. Barthes continued to contribute to the [[avant-garde]] literary magazin ...atus quo. These insights brought Barthes very much in line with similar [[Marxist]] theory.
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• Capitalism
  ...relation is fundamentally exploitative. (Tong, Rosemarie. [[Feminist]] [[Thought]]: A More Comprehensive Introduction, 1998, p. 96.) ...nd fundamental characteristic of capitalism." (Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, 1998, p. 122-123.)
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  Ever since the 1960s, an important [[body]] of [[thought]] has developed in reaction to the presumed behaviorism according to which ...ll as on expert systems in artificial intelligence (models of [[paranoid]] thought, Parry), and especially experimental research (anomalies in the processing
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• Deconstruction
  ...— assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of st ...what kind of [[thing]] deconstruction is — whether it is a [[school]] of thought (it is certainly not so in the [[singular]]), a method of [[reading]] (it h
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• Félix Guattari
  ...nforcing [[neurosis]] as a way of maintaining normality. Guattari's post-[[Marxist]] [[vision]] of capitalism provides a new definition not only of mental [[i ...[economics]], and [[power]] [[formations]] introduce a radically inventive thought process engaged in liberating subjectivity from the standardizing and homog
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• Ernesto Laclau
  ...tical theory|political theorist]] often described as [[Post-marxism | post-marxist]]. He is a professor at the [[University of Essex]] where he holds a [[cha ...[working]] [[class]] and [[new social movements]]. They rejected [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[economic determinism]] and the [[notion]] of [[class struggle]] [[being
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[reification]] and [[class consciousness]] to [[Marxist philosophy]] and [[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influential in [[thinki ===Pre-Marxist period===
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...owed from [[biology]], mechanics and the [[psychology]] of his day. Marx [[thought]] his discovery using [[Hegelian]] notions of the [[subject]]. It is fascin ...d with the growth of [[French]] phenomenology and he was influenced by the thought of [[Hegel]] and [[Heidegger]]. Structuralism offered Lacan a way of talkin
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ..., why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of thought… however, one should treat Lenin in an "[[objective]] critical and [[scie ...on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic "post-id
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...our being… One is almost tempted to resuscitate here the old infamous [[Marxist]] cliche of [[religion]] as the "opium of the people," as the [[imaginary]]
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  Today, even the [[self]]-proclaimed post-[[Marxist]] radicals endorse the gap between [[ethics]] and [[politics]], relegating ...als. Their [[case]] largely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard Marxist-Leninist opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom: as even Leftist l
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...false in this pacifist neutrality, I claim. I think that's my concluding [[thought]]. Q: [……?] Have you changed, become less of a [[Marxist]]?
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• The Interpassive Subject
  According to the classic Althusserian criticism of the [[Marxist]] problematic of [[commodity]] [[fetishism]], this [[notion]] relies on the ...crime [[scene]]) and the [[truth]] [[about]] the crime (its "[[latent]] [[thought]]"), how he will prove to the culprit his or her [[guilt]]. The success of
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...rests me in Japan is that it is a good argument against the vulgar, pseudo Marxist evolutionary notion that you have to go through certain evolutionary stages ...ial movements, like feminist and ecological groups. At that time everybody thought that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some solidly corrupted, but g
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...uses on what he perceived as the main [[negative]] aspect of Althusser's [[thought]]: his theoreticist elitism, his [[insistence]] on the gap which forever se ...police and politics proper is always blurred and contested; say, in the [[Marxist]] [[tradition]], '[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subjectivization of t
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...demise of Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysi
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...ntrast to Mensheviks and skeptics among the Bolsheviks themselves, Lenin [[thought]] that the complex situation of 1917, i.e. the growing [[dissatisfaction]] ...threaten its very survival. Say, for a long time, [[sexual]] libertarians thought that monogamic sexual repression is necessary for the survival of capitalis
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...s of globalization and [[digitalization]], which is quite contrary o the [[Marxist]] confidence in the powers of [[progress]]. ...e capitalist [[mode of production]]. In this respect, Empire remains a pre-Marxist book. However, perhaps the solution is that it is not enough to [[return]]
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e former [[Yugoslavia]]: not only Serbs, but most of the western powers, [[thought]] Serbia alone had enough substance to form a state on its own. Throughout ...pitalist. The disintegration of communism in 1990 confirmed the 'vulgar' [[Marxist]] thesis that the economic base of political democracy is the private owner
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...anscendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely formal fun ...d in the notion of ontological difference, the focus of Heidegger's entire thought, which can only be properly grasped against the background of the motif of
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...[[notion]] of the "[[end of history]]," demonstrating that he in no way [[thought]] that, at his historical [[moment]], [[history]] came at an end. At the v ...try to demonstrate some deeper affinity between [[Heidegger]] and Oriental thought, mostly [[Buddhism]], miss the point: when Heidegger speaks about the "appr
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...xist theory|Marxist]] political forces and some of them generated by the [[Marxist]] political engagement itself, which cannot be "rationalized" in this way: ...ian notion of "[[biopolitics]]" as the culmination of the entire Western [[thought]] ends up getting caught in a kind of "[[ontological]] trap" in which conce
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...scribed into his thought - but with a twist: instead of problematizing his thought, Nolte justifies his political choice as a viable option in the situation o ...href="#7x"><font color="#e42033">7.</font></a> [[Alain]] Badiou, Infinite Thought, [[London]]: Continuum 2003, p. 153.<br>
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...ity of [[Stalinist]] [[totalitarianism]]. How could a school of [[Marxist thought]] that claimed to focus on the conditions of the failure of the [[emancipat
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...te [[cause]] of this [[moralistic]] depoliticisation is the retreat of the Marxist historico-political project. A couple of decades ago, people were still dis
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• Surrealism
  ...nd [[creativity]]. In later years it adopted [[Hegelian]] dialectics and [[Marxist]]-Leninist historical [[materialism]]. The "[[social]] and martial cataclys ...ut there the [[author]], denying the "[[dream]] [[navel]]" for the sake of Marxist-Leninist materialism, felt he could use [[them]] to bring into focus all hi
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ([[April 28]] [[1902]] - [[1968]]) was a [[Marxist]] and [[Hegelian]] [[political philosopher]], who had a substantial impact A "Marxist of the [[right]]," as he called himself, Kojève came to postulate as early
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• Frankfurt School
  The '''Frankfurt [[School]]''' is a school of [[neo-Marxism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The ...]'', which showed the continuity with [[Hegelianism]] that underlay Marx's thought: [[Marcuse]] was one of the first to articulate the [[theoretical]] [[signi
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• Administered World
  ...onvinced … that [[social]] [[freedom]] is inseparable from enlightened [[thought]].') Yet, for Adorno, reason, in the [[form]] of [[scientific]] [[rationali [[Category:Marxist theory]]
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...y is threatened in the West itself by the onslaught of New Age "Asiatic" [[thought]]. Such Eastern wisdom, from "[[Western Buddhism]]" to Taoism, is establis ...creasingly one lacks the most elementary "[[cognitive mapping]]." Eastern thought offers a way out that is far superior to the desperate attempt to escape in
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...as well as for Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, a touchstone for radical thought.&nbsp; You seem to see in Paul's works&nbsp; something of a revolutionary m ...al way, "death drive, decadence" as if we were reading some kind of naïve Marxist liberal optimist from the early 20th century.&nbsp; This is all somehow for
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how are you?" liter ..., now, I'm not saying what Elizabeth Wright, who edited a reader about me, thought. I love her, an [[English]] old lady. I had tea with her once, and she said
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...scribed into his thought - but with a twist: instead of problematizing his thought, Nolte justifies his political choice as a viable option in the situation o 7. [[Alain]] Badiou, Infinite Thought, [[London]]: Continuum 2003, p. 153.
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  Today, even the [[self]]-proclaimed post-[[Marxist]] radicals endorse the gap between [[ethics]] and [[politics]], relegating ...als. Their [[case]] largely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard Marxist-Leninist opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom: as even Leftist l
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...at which there is no [[need]] for [[speech]], for [[signs]], since, in it, thought directly intervenes in the Real? This gigantic Brain, this Other-Thing, inv ...e conceived in strictly Kantian terms, as the impossible apparition of the Thought (the [[Thinking]] Substance) as a Thing-[[in-itself]], a noumenal object. C
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...demise of Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysi
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...s me in Japan is that it is a [[good]] argument against the vulgar, pseudo Marxist evolutionary notion that you have to go through certain evolutionary stages ...movements, like [[feminist]] and ecological groups. At that time everybody thought that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some solidly corrupted, but g
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  everybody [[thought]] that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some slyly like half of L.A., is far stronger than the [[Marxist]] [[class]] [[struggle]]. At least
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  Today, even the [[self]]-proclaimed post-[[Marxist]] radicals endorse the gap between [[ethics]] and [[politics]], relegating ...als. Their [[case]] largely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard Marxist-Leninist opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom: as even Leftist l
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...s of globalization and [[digitalization]], which is quite contrary o the [[Marxist]] confidence in the powers of [[progress]]. ...e capitalist [[mode of production]]. In this respect, Empire remains a pre-Marxist book. However, perhaps the solution is that it is not enough to [[return]]
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• Historicism
  ...ignificantly, [[Marx's theory of alienation]] comes [[full]] circle to the thought of the [[Hegelian]] [[right]], arguing among [[other]] things that [[capita ...later teach at [[Columbia University]] and this would produce a school of thought based on his ideas.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your [[word]], your [[thought]], and your sympathy touch me deeply. ...and handy)—at the time, then, when I found myself able to give to Marx's thought (I am speaking emphatically of his "[[philosophy]],'' and not of his work:
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...hesis is that the "nursery tale"of the cogito which has dominated modern [[thought]] (in its guise as the self-[[transparent]] [[thinking]] subject) is, in fa ...]] in an age which has seen the re-emergence of obscurantist [[religious]] thought. However, part of the broad remit of this compact book is an attempt to res
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