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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...them]]. Such [[narcissism]] is not a Slovene specialty. There are versions of it all around Eastern Europe: We [[value]] [[democracy]] more because we ha ...tional [[tradition]] are its local guardians who warn about the [[danger]] of foreign influences.
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...he gentle irony of a novel of manners, giving a new twist to the old topic of “[[European trinity]].” ...oin the European Monetary Union?); the Germans worry about the sad inertia of their [[economy]].
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...inging [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to [[Iraq]],” but of simply getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed b ...erica then responds like a sullen [[child]] in reaction to the ingratitude of those it selflessly helped.
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...ve remarks against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...reedom” to undermine the workers’ and peasants’ government on behalf of the counterrevolution.<br><br>
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...possible to produce different kinds of laughter. First used for episodes of <i>The Jack Benny Show</i> and <i>I [[Love]] Lucy,</i> today its modernized ...ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[thoughts]].
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• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...doctrine]] now publicly declared as the [[official]] U.S. “philosophy” of international [[politics]]?<br><br>
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...y answered: "Of course not — we're not stupid! But I was told that some of our ancestors actually did believe that." In short, they transferred their ...in it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p>
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...last four years were not just a bad [[dream]]. The nightmarish coalition of big [[business]] and [[fundamentalist]] [[populism]] will roll on, as [[Bus ...ed mobilizing [[power]] of American [[Christian fundamentalism]]. Because of its [[self]]-evident imbecility, it is a much more [[paradox]]ical, properl
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...i>, brings us the pivotal [[moment]] of the entire saga — the [[change]] of the “good” Anakin Skywalker into the “bad” Darth Vader — it aims ...go of his mother; he can’t let go of his girlfriend. He can’t let go of things. It makes you greedy. And when you’re greedy, you are on the pat
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas - and this is the topic of Thomas Frank's new outstanding book. ...]], it is ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank.
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• The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology
  ...ould have been a pseudo Deleuzian celebration of the successful [[revolt]] of the [[multitude]]. ...eady in itself generating [[communist]] potentials-the "becoming-communist of capitalism," to put it in Deleuzian [[terms]]...
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• Anxiety: Kierkegaard with Lacan
  ...the pressure of the desire to indulge in sin. The [[superego]] [[feeling]] of guilt is therefore [[right]]: the more we obey the Law, the more we are [[g [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
  ...of years they are expected to decide: will they return to be full members of the Amish community or leave it forever and become ordinary American citize ...s they will return to the seclusion of their community. No wonder that 90% of Amish children do exactly that.
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• Odradek as a Political Category
  ...adek, one of [[Kafka]]'s key achievements:<ref>[[Franz Kafka]], "The Cares of a [[Family]] Man," The [[Complete]] Stories, New York: Shocken Books, 1986. ...ate, especially as neither of [[them]] provides an intelligent [[meaning]] of the word...
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• The Politics of Jouissance
  ...ess' ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of [[people]] of any meaningful "cognitive mapping."<ref>I rely here on conversations with [ ...cated, [[partial]], "[[castrated]]," immediately gives birth to the notion of a [[full]], achieved, unlimited jouissance whose existence is necessarily p
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...professional [[identity]], so that they can only be accepted at the price of a special qualification. ...ocratic tenets, they display a breathtaking talent to unearth hidden traps of domination. When faced with an attack on these tenets, they display a no le
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...et [[life]] itself write the story" ended up in a mass of [[material]] out of which the studio experts tried to concoct a short coherent [[narrative]]. H ...o things he would never have done in real life interactions - in the guise of a [[fiction]], the truth [[about]] himself is articulated.<br><br>
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• Jews, Christians and other Monsters
  ...ng to Leon Brunschvicg, therein resides the most elementary ethical lesson of the West against the Eastern spirituality: The preoccupation with our salvation is a remnant of [[self]]-love, a trace of [[natural]] egocentrism from which we must be torn by the religious [[life]
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...[[another]] [[human]] [[being]], but even by a machine, as in the [[case]] of the famous Tibetan "prayer wheels": I put a written prayer into a wheel and ...less usually a brief period of uneasiness: the first reaction to it is one of a shock, since it is difficult to accept that the machine out there can "la
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...Žižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpec ...;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>
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