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• Books/Adrian Johnston/Zizeks Ontology
  ...ilosophical problems: the relationship of mind and body, and the nature of human freedom. By bringing together the past two centuries of European philosophy
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• Books/Catherine Malabou/Plasticity At The Dusk Of Writing
  ...understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. ...t “the event” of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human action.
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• Books/Karl Marx/Economic And Philosophic Manuscripts Of 1844
  ...essed as the youthful Marx sets forth his first detailed assessment of the human condition.
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• Books/Lorenzo Chiesa/Lorenzo Chiesa
  ...and a materialist approach to the ontological and political nature of the human animal are crucial concerns in all strands of his current and recent invest * 2014, Italian Thought Today: Bio-Economy, Human Nature, Christianity
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• Books/Oxana Timofeeva/The History Of Animals A Philosophy
  ...hilosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our ‘animal’ nature and seemingly detached from it.
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• Books/Renata Salecl/Choice
  '''A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair.''' ...sdom, humour and sensitivity, she examines the complexity of the essential human capacity to choose which has become mired in consumerist ironies.
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• Books/Sigmund Freud/Freud By Jonathan Lear
  ...engaged with, brilliantly illustrating their philosophical significance: human sexuality, the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of transference.
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Capitalism The Sole Culprit Of The Destructive Exploitation Of Nature
  ='Capitalism, The Sole Culprit of the Destructive Exploitation of Nature' by Alain Badiou= ...in ecology proceeds, the predatory excesses of this bad animal that is the human will soon lead to the end of the living world. In the direction of the tech
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Five Remarks On The Contemporary Significance Of The Middle Ages
  ...pensent [everything is said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late]," he evidently was referring to some sort of origin, whic
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Highly Speculative Reasoning On The Concept Of Democracy
  ...somehow prohibited not to be a democrat. Accordingly, it furthers that the human kind longs for democracy, and all subjectivity suspected of not being democ ...o a politics of emancipation – is sooner or later related to the special nature of people's lives, not to the State, but to people as they come forth in th
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...areness that this propaganda, far from pertaining, as it claims to, to the nature of the things and subjects democratically inscribed within the media, const ...spontaneous philosophy of modernising propaganda is Aristotelian: let the nature of things manifest its proper ends. We must not do, but let be. Just think
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/am-i-a-philosopher.html
  ...n Spinoza whose ''Eth­ics'' claims to render the inner work­ing of God-Nature – if noth­ing else, it can be shown that Spinoza is here much more "arro ...r they them­selves helped to unleash: "Althusser mis­un­der­stands the nature and trans­form­at­ive poten­tial – the pro­let­ar­iz­a­tion, per
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...the inscription of my desire into the object (which is why, as they say, a human being appears sublime ony to the gaze of the subject in love with him/her. ...nes every permanent form of gender identity; second, we can well imagine a human universe that leaves behind sexuation, a literally trans-sexual (not just t
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...of duty, somehow like Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death," where a mortal human being attempts to escape immortality, its unbearable ethical burden/injunct ...of interpreting this piece is not to reduce it to its superficial cyclical nature (endless repetitions and variations of the same fragments, unable to focus
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...ed, imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals, deprived of the full dignity of a human being, studied and controlled like a natural phenomenon. ...environment, but precisely something which, although it is also no longer nature, is not yet ''logos'', and has to be "repressed" by ''logos''―the Freudia
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/in-defense-of-hegels-madness.html
  ...rfactual-supporting exclusions and inclusions that are codified in laws of nature. (Brandom, internet) ..."The 'I,' or becoming in general, this mediation, on account of its simple nature, is just immediacy in the process of becoming, and is the immediate itself.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-and-sade-the-ideal-couple.html
  ...r bodily organ which provides pleasure, ignoring him/her as the Whole of a human Person?), the crucial clue that allows us to discern the contours of "Sade ...miliation (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical Evil" of human nature); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain as the only a priori sentimen
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-avec-althusser.html
  ..."deeper" positivity (to explain, say, through evolutionary biology how the human animal developed intersubjective discursive normativity), since in order to ...order to signal to other bees where the flowers with the nectar are; if a human being were to do such a dance, the question would pop up: "Why is he doing
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...evable in the satisfaction of all―that is, of all those it involves in a human undertaking. Of all the undertakings that have been proposed in this centur ...olute Knowing, how are we to read this together with Lacan's insistence on human finitude, on the irreducible ''future antérieur'' that pertains to the pro
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...ation (the norm is no longer experienced as part of my substantial ethical nature, but as an external force that constrains my freedom), while for the mature ...of this self-engendering monster pursuing its interests with no regard for human or environmental concerns is an ideological abstraction, and that, behind t
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