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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow ...[[whole]] [[game]] of discerning a patriarchal, Eurocentric, mechanistic, nature-exploiting bias to modern science "does not really concern science", the dr
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? </i> <br><br> ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...gri thus deserve much praise for enlightening us about the contradictory [[nature]] of today's "turbocapitalism" and attempting to [[identify]] to identify t ...all for three [[demands]] formulated in the terminology of [[universal]] [[human]] rights. The problem with these demands is that they fluctuate between [[f
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• The Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Anarchy
  ...tical]] relationship between freedom and authority. The possibilities of [[human]] freedom, according to anarchist theory have their basis in an essential [ ...uman [[nature]] and the possibilities of social harmony. [[Freud]] saw the human [[instinct]] as [[naturally]] [[aggressive]] and destructive rather than co
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• Civilization
  ...] ancestors and which serve two purposes—namely to protect men against [[nature]] and to adjust their mutual relations."<ref>1930a, p. 89</ref></blockquote ...]] the forces of nature and extract its wealth for the [[satisfaction]] of human [[needs]] and, on the [[other]] hand, all the regulations necessary in orde
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• Illusion
  Illusion is an error experienced by someone who is misled (illudere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceive ...llusion would be the belief in the [[happiness]] and goodness of [[human]] nature.
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• Historicism
  ...ught only through [[understanding]] that history. The history of any such human endeavor, moreover, not only builds upon but also reacts against what has g ...e [[concrete]] embodiment of the most important factors that are acting in human history at any given [[time]]. This contrasts with teleological theories of
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...you as [[being]], in the field one is provisionally obliged to call the "[[human]] sciences," the first thinker who has assumed the [[theoretical]] [[respon ...hroat of the pseudo-"psychologists" and [[other]] [[philosophers]] of the "human person" and "[[intersubjectivity]]," as well as the technocrats of "[[struc
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...sm lies. Even though I am quite aware of the contradictory and ambiguous [[nature]] of Marx's [[relationship]] with anarchism, Marx was [[right]] when he dre ...ever. For example, a lot of left-wingers dismissed talk of [[universal]] [[human]] rights as just another tool of American [[imperialism]], to exert pressur
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[human]] being?" and so on. I think this split is false. I take here quite [[nature]] of relationships of production, whether political democracy is
  63 KB (10,146 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...ea of the savage "pre-human" self and the symbolic universe of "civilized" human subjectivity (where in the Enlightenment tradition the latter is identified ...the latter that both Freud and (especially) Lacan identify the peculiarly human motivation in regard to <i>jouissance</i>: that is, a basic compulsion to,
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...e="26x"></a><a href="#26">²⁶</a> Zizek's specifications for the nature of subjectivity already pre-empt any analysis that might be carried out, or ...lic, this impossibility marks something of the truth of what it is to be a human subject. That is, there is no harmonious resolution of political conflict,
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• Literature
  ...with his [[notion]] that the unconscious is organized on the principles of human language (as these were conceptualized by the structural [[linguistics]] of ..., to a fascination with the [[idea]] of [[desire]] as fundamental to the [[nature]] of literary texts. The Slovenian [[Slavoj Žižek]], who uses Lacan (alon
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...[[ideas]] developed into a general theory of the importance of a healthy [[Human sexual behavior|sex life]] to overall well-being, a theory compatible with ...od of his work, and were primarily sexological, clinical, or scientific in nature. Reich was one of the first of the European socialists to break ranks compl
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• Paul Ricoeur
  ...e second [[Kluge Prize|John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences]] (shared with [[Jaroslav Pelikan]]). * ''[[Freedom]] and [[Nature]]: The Voluntary and the Involuntary'', trans. Erazim Kohak. Evanston: Nort
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• Erich Fromm
  ...ich recapitulated and complemented the [[theoretical]] principles of human nature found in ''Escape from Freedom'' and ''Man for Himself'', principles which ...is existential dichotomy is found in the [[development]] of one's uniquely human powers of [[love]] and reason. However, Fromm so distinguished his [[conce
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...t, no fat, no [[sexual]] harassment, no this, no that. Probably never in [[human]] [[history]] did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of perso ...in in my books, I don't buy the simplistic, Marxist reductive decoding, "[[human rights]], screw them, they are really just rights for white men of property
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