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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...which finds that [[contradiction]] is an [[internal]] condition of every [[identity]]. Central to this enterprise is the examination of the [[theory]] which he ...a [[whole]], Zizek also produces his most sustained explanation of Hegel's philosophy here, as well as dissecting the [[cogito]]. As this synopsis suggests, [[Ta
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...it and Zizek devoured it and in [[particular]] the radical deconstructive philosophy of Jacques [[Derrida]] with whom he had contact and still has letters and b ...t towards High School. I already had my own interests." Apart from reading philosophy, Zizek was making [[films]] with friends and developing an obsession with [
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  Zizek talks exactly as he writes, in a nonstop pastiche of [[Hegelian]] [[philosophy]], [[Marxist]] dialectics, and [[Lacanian]] [[jargon]] leavened with refere ...me an economist. Instead, Zizek [[divided]] his atte ntion between reading philosophy and watching movies. Access to Western movies was easy because of a traditi
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...of an [[intellectual]]? As Zizek himself suggests in the interview here, [[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[com <p><strong>Zizek:</strong> Martin [[Heidegger]] said that philosophy doesn't make things easier, it makes them harder and more complicated. What
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  Zizek's own polemic against multicultural [[identity]] politics. And talking longer the [[State]] [[philosophy]]. It was some kind of vague [[humanist]] marxism,
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...t cannot find its "name" in the symbolic order or achieve full ontological identity. Using Lacan's expression, the subject always remains as a "bone stuck in t ...tion - and the consequent drive to resolve impossible questions concerning identity, destiny, divinity and so on - that human beings are essentially open to th
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ll focus on the critiques of Zizek concerning politics, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and then turn to the way the particular interweaving of his positions in t ...tique of Zizek's reading of Hegel. Dews targets Zizek's argument that 'the identity of the subject consists in nothing other than the continual failure of self
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...also an attempt to stand in for that [[empty signifier]] from which the [[identity]] of all those others can be seen; and yet, of course, as soon as we do thi ...gnifier. It is the signifier which constitutes the kernel of the object's 'identity'. (SO, 98)</font></p>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...od blockbuster, from now-forgotten figures of 18th and 19th century German philosophy to the notoriously obscure writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lac
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...y [[instance]] is that of early Zizek ally and critic of [[postmodern]] "[[identity]]" politics Ernesto [[Laclau]]. As Laclau writes in the [[exchange]] betwee ...e are confronted with is their [[speculative identity]]. Upon what is this identity founded? Why are all choices within our given ideological co-ordinates fund
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• Phenomenology
  The term '[[phenomenology]]' has been used in [[philosophy]] since the late eighteenth century and in [[psychiatry]] since the beginni In [[philosophy]], the [[word]] was introduced by the [[German]] Johann Heinrich Lambert as
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• Paul Ricoeur
  ...cense'' in [[1933]] from the [[University of Rennes]] and began studying [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in 1934, where he was influenced ...d ''The [[Symbolism]] of [[Evil]]'' published in 1960, and ''[[Freud]] and Philosophy: Essays on Interpretation'' published in 1965. These works cemented his re
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• Luce Irigaray
  In the second semester of [[1982]], Irigaray held the [[chair]] in [[Philosophy]] at the [[Erasmus University]] in [[Rotterdam]]. Research here resulted in ...uage of men. In 1986 she transferred from the Psychology Commission to the Philosophy Commission as the latter is her preferred [[discipline]].
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...horitarian personality." In addition to ridiculing patriotism and racial [[identity]], the Frankfurt [[school]] glorified promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Ce ...of native land and native tongue.... The idea is to disarm the bombs... of identity that nation-states build to [[defend]] themselves against the stranger, aga
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...I have taken the expedient offered me by the invitation to lecture to the philosophy group of the ''F&eacute;d&eacute;ration des &eacute;tudiants d&egrave;s let ...ntity - a fault of habit, but its effect on the mind is such that the true identity may appear as simply one alibi among others, a sort of refined reduplicatio
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• Kant with Sade
  ...Sadian bedroom is equal to those places from which the schools of ancient philosophy took their name: Academy, Lyceum, Stoa. Here as there, the way for science ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' comes eight years after the Critique of Practical Reason.
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...ade to recall him to the real, but this expresses, in his dream, the quasi-identity of what is happening, the very reality of an overturned candle setting ligh ...the <i>tuchi </i>brings us back to the same point at which pre-Socratic [[philosophy]] sought to motivate the world itsele</p><p>
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• Individual
  ...iplines, such as ethnology, [[sociology]], [[political]] [[theory]], and [[philosophy]].
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• Unconscious mind
  ...ous]]''' refers to that part of [[mental]] functioning of which [[subject (philosophy)|subjects]] make themselves unaware. The psychoanalytic unconscious is sim ...ny point of reference to which to be 'restored' following [[trauma]] or '[[identity crisis]]'. In this way, Lacan's [[thesis]] of the structurally [[dynamic]]
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• Biopolitics
  ...ined a fundamental ambiguity with [[regard]] to its use, in contemporary [[philosophy]] we can distinguish between a [[negative]] and a positive application of t ...y engender a new singularized “we”, a new disalienated communitarian [[identity]] not sustained by a [[master-signifier]]. Žižek therefore holds on to th
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