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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font></p>
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...me includes the essays "Welcome the Desert of the [[Real]]", "The Prospect of Radical [[Politics]] Today", "Against the [[Double]] [[Blackmail]]" and "[[ ...ind of caution or delay. Baudrillard, for his part, wrote in <i>The Spirit of [[Terrorism]]</i>:
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...on against its promotion as a medical [[treatment]]. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own [[defense]], wh ...tons of his publications were [[Book burning|burned]] by the FDA. He died of heart failure in jail just over a year later, one day before he was due to
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:
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• Communism
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...ize the conference “[[The Idea of Communism]]” at Birkbeck, University of [[London]], in 2009, and a second conference in New York City in 2012.
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• Stalinism
  ...how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<br><br> ...to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it int ...ple awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened techn
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in Copyright [[University]] of Chicago, acting through its Press Winter 2006
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...! Or else, with a yawn and a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in [[human]] [[nature]]. ...]] that we all [[claim]] the [[others]] embody. And they do. But which one of us wants to embrace Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms? The [[feeling]] is mutua
  41 KB (6,846 words) - 02:12, 21 May 2019
• Talk:Louis Althusser
  ...Jean-Toussaint Desanti and Tran Duc Thao, gave him a better understanding of Marxist thought. Althusser taught philosophy at the ENS until 1980. There h ...e of his thought. This work led him to postulate a break between the works of the young Marx, where theoretical humanism is still present, and the mature
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• Talk:Bertolt Brecht
  ...e an influential critic, [[Herbert Ihering]], brought him to the attention of a public longing for modern theater. ...d accompany him through exile and for the rest of his life. His first book of poems, ''Hauspostille'', won a literary prize.
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• Talk:Martin Heidegger
  ...Much controversy has surrounded his status as a prominent academic member of the [[Nazi Party]]. .... In 1945/47, the French Occupation Authority forbade him to teach because of his Nazi past, a decision rescinded in 1951 when he became Professor [[emer
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• Talk:Fascism and Stalinism
  ...formation. In Zizek's words, this element "becomes elevated to the dignity of a Thing."2 It becomes a fantastic stand-in for enjoyment. ...differentiates among ideological formations in terms not of legitimacy but of enjoyment. A primary task for the political theorist, then, is to grasp how
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...oment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the Jaco ...really defend and assert the A.<ref>For a balanced historical description of the Terror, see David Andress, ''The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolu
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• Joker Apart
  ...and sandals and swigging from a can of Diet Coke, is giving me the benefit of his [[experience]] on cheap [[London]] hotels. "This one" - he points to it ...of Gandhi - Lenin no longer packs in the tourists, and there is no record of him having stayed here - and so he entertains me and the photographer with
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...to the sphere of the "Asiatic mode of production," seeing it as a new form of "Oriental despotism" - the irony being that, for traditional Russians, the ...get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.).
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...get the critique of the imperialist "[[excess]]," with the (silent) notion of mobilizing [[capitalist]] mechanisms within another, more "progressive," [[ .... The only [[true]] question today is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of capitalism, or does today's [[global]] capitalism contain strong enough [[a
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ween goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horizon of all its activity.<br><br> ...sily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theorists; however, this
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...kegardian called "indirect [[communication]]," by way of practicing a kind of irony, that one can render its horror.</ref><br /> ...ganized the [[terror]], was [[responsible]] for the [[death]] of thousands of innocent Communists...<br /><br />
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