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Is [[global]] emancipation a lost [[cause]]? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the [[postmodern]] [[world]], [[ideologies]] of all kinds have been cast in [[doubt]]. In this combative new [[work]], renowned theorist Slavoj [[Zizek]] takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several “lost causes.” From a provocative redemption of Heidegger’s engagement with the [[Third]] [[Reich]] as “a [[right]] step in the wrong direction” to reasserting [[class]] [[struggle]] as the underlying [[reality]] of global [[capitalism]], to a [[defense]] of the emancipatory legacy of [[Christianity]] against New Age spiritualism, Zizek confronts the failures of contemporary [[theory]] and proposes unexpected resolutions.
"Is the minimal [[Imagedifference]] in [[politics]] not the one between [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]]? In a [[letter]] to Herbert [[Marcuse]] from 20 January [[1948]], [[Heidegger]] wrote:Lostcauses2.jpg|300px|right"To the serious legitimate charges that you express [[about]] a [[regime]] that murdered millions of [[Jews]]...'I can merely add that if instead of 'Jews'A wittyyou had written 'East Germans,' then the same holds [[true]] for one of the allies, with the difference that everything that has occurred since 1945 has become [[public]] [[knowledge]], adrenalinwhile the bloody [[terror]] of the [[Nazis]] in point of fact had been kept a [[secret]] from the [[German]] [[people]]." Marcuse was fully justified in replying that the thin difference between brutally ex-fuelled manifesto for universal values'''patriating people and burning [[them]] in a [[concentration camp]] is the line that, at that [[moment]], separated [[civilization]] from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist [[gulag]] and the [[Nazi]] annihilation camp also was, at that historical moment, the difference between civilization and barbarism."
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"Is the minimal difference in politics not the one between Nazism and Stalinism? In a letter to Herbert Marcuse from 20 January 1948, Heidegger wrote: "To the serious legitimate charges that you express about a regime that murdered millions of Jews...' I can merely add that if instead of 'Jews' you had written 'East Germans,' then the same holds true for one of the allies, with the difference that everything that has occurred since 1945 has become public knowledge, while the bloody terror of the Nazis in point of fact had been kept a secret from the German people." Marcuse was fully justified in replying that the thin difference between brutally ex-patriating people and burning them in a concentration camp is the line that, at that moment, separated civilization from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist gulag and the Nazi annihilation camp also was, at that historical moment, the difference between civilization and barbarism."
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