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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...d [[Jew]]ish ancestry through his maternal grandfather (who converted to [[Christianity]]). Lenin was baptised into the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. ...inued to study independently and by [[1891]] had earned a [[license]] to [[practice]] [[law]]<ref>[[Robert Service]] "Lenin: A Biography" ISBN 0-330-49139-3</r
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• Alain Badiou
  ...ation]] of [[Algeria]]. He wrote his first novel, [[Almagestes]], in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew incr ...ation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.
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• The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For
  Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the past —
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...en]], an ancient Egyptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [ ...close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[faith]] or to circumcision. Freud explains
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...t as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity resides in the act of violent [[transgression]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Th ...e the [[cause]] of the [[Communist]]'s attachment to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twice had to [[change]] their Party line ov
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...ty to run a country through the "normal" chains of administrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should star ...[[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [[nothing]] else." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obsce
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...finite call is the primordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grounding in this irreducibly first-person relationship to the other which should go to ...count of which, for Hannah [[Arendt]], tyranny is politics at its purest), in short, excluding precisely the dimension of what Carl [[Schmitt]] called po
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...t 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with o ...to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...s going up Headington Hill on the top of a bus"—the qualifications like "in a sense," "what now appears," "or, if you like," "you could argue that... b ...ere a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was starting in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked the fe
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...e different way of life (or, rather, way of <i>jouissance</i> materialized in its social practices and rituals) disturb us, throw off the rails the balan ...ate is to ignore them. I am allowed not to get too close to others; I move in a social space where I interact with others obeying certain external “mec
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• The Desert of the Real
  expression to the unreality of American daily [[life]], exemplified in <p> Was it not something of a similar [[order]] that took [[place]] in New
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...the [[name]] for all those things we [[practice]] without really believing in [[them]], without “taking them seriously.” Isn’t this why we dismiss ...passion is [[politically incorrect]]; although everything seems permitted in our culture, one kind of [[prohibition]] is merely [[displaced]] by [[anoth
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• Jews, Christians and other Monsters
  ...od; if we love one [[another]], God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." The radical conclusion to be drawn from this is that one should [[reno
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...t 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with o ...to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains
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• Liberation Hurts
  appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[
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• Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
  * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Like A Thief In Broad Daylight]]'''''. * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Trouble in Paradise]]'''''.
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...n, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br> ...tically precise [[English]] tea,"Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the E
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...of reference, the only conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Laca ...cused on the particular versions of those theoretical frameworks currently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back
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