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...d [[Jew]]ish ancestry through his maternal grandfather (who converted to [[Christianity]]). Lenin was baptised into the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. ...inued to study independently and by [[1891]] had earned a [[license]] to [[practice]] [[law]]<ref>[[Robert Service]] "Lenin: A Biography" ISBN 0-330-49139-3</r

...ation]] of [[Algeria]]. He wrote his first novel, [[Almagestes]], in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew incr ...ation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.

Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the past —

...en]], an ancient Egyptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [ ...close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[faith]] or to circumcision. Freud explains

...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha

...t as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity resides in the act of violent [[transgression]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Th ...e the [[cause]] of the [[Communist]]'s attachment to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twice had to [[change]] their Party line ov

...ty to run a country through the "normal" chains of administrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should star ...[[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [[nothing]] else." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obsce

...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>

...finite call is the primordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grounding in this irreducibly first-person relationship to the other which should go to ...count of which, for Hannah [[Arendt]], tyranny is politics at its purest), in short, excluding precisely the dimension of what Carl [[Schmitt]] called po

...t 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with o ...to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains

...s going up Headington Hill on the top of a bus"—the qualifications like "in a sense," "what now appears," "or, if you like," "you could argue that... b ...ere a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was starting in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked the fe

...e different way of life (or, rather, way of <i>jouissance</i> materialized in its social practices and rituals) disturb us, throw off the rails the balan ...ate is to ignore them. I am allowed not to get too close to others; I move in a social space where I interact with others obeying certain external “mec

expression to the unreality of American daily [[life]], exemplified in <p> Was it not something of a similar [[order]] that took [[place]] in New

...the [[name]] for all those things we [[practice]] without really believing in [[them]], without “taking them seriously.” Isn’t this why we dismiss ...passion is [[politically incorrect]]; although everything seems permitted in our culture, one kind of [[prohibition]] is merely [[displaced]] by [[anoth

...od; if we love one [[another]], God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." The radical conclusion to be drawn from this is that one should [[reno

...t 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with o ...to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains

appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[

* [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Like A Thief In Broad Daylight]]'''''. * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Trouble in Paradise]]'''''.

...n, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br> ...tically precise [[English]] tea,"Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the E

...of reference, the only conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Laca ...cused on the particular versions of those theoretical frameworks currently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back

...onary narrative not because it was better able to account for the 'crisis' in [[liberal]]-bourgeois ideology, but because it was able to impose the [[ide ...he exploitation of [[nature]] is seen as [[masculine]]; socialist ecology, in which the exploitation of nature is seen as the product of [[capitalism]];

...the only one 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>< ...a kind of synthesis, with the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>

...tique of godless nihilism to 9/11, as the title of his book, ''Dostoyevsky in Manhattan,'' suggests. ...fies the violation of any merely [[human]] constraints and considerations. In short, fundamentalists have become no different than the ''godless'' Stalin

...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]

...can]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Additionally, among his later books that dealt more with ...ic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has b

That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which ge ...ere, the way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics. In this, yes, a ground-clearing occurs which will have to make its way through

...that was an easy way out. I didn't merely serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br> ...t is to say, in the commandment which is expressed in our [[civilization]] in the [[form]] of the love of one's neighbor.<br><br>

...recursor, who supposedly opened up some [[impasse]], aberration or aporia, in that [[domain]] of [[ethics]] we have chosen to explore this year, and that ...ng, which is related to a [[number]] of [[others]] I am struggling against in [[order]] to make some [[progress]] here before you.<p>

...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]

...Descartes argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes conclu ...to think of ourselves as individuals because we feel we are [[complete]], in charge of ourselves and not subject to the whims of [[outside]] forces. Whe

...that was an easy way out. I didn't merely serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br> ...t is to say, in the commandment which is expressed in our [[civilization]] in the [[form]] of the love of one's neighbor.<br><br>

...tumn, and one of the [[world]]'s leading [[public]] intellectuals, dressed in a mod jacket and sandals and swigging from a can of Diet Coke, is giving me ...ere is little to see apart from a statue of Gandhi - Lenin no longer packs in the tourists, and there is no record of him having stayed here - and so he

...y to see Lenin and Stalin as 'Oriental' despots. The great Russian tyrants in the eighteenth and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chambe ...ly, such a search for the intruder who infected the original model and set in motionm its degeneration cannot but reproduce the logic of anti-Semitism.)

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...s right: anti-capitalism cannot be directly the goal of political action - in politics, one opposes concrete political agents and their actions, not an a ...the Hero, there is no Event." One can easily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be for

...y of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire.</div><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__down

* [[Democracy In What State?]] * [[Democracy In What State? (2010)]]

| New directions in critical [[theory]] [[Democracy]] in what [[state]]? | Radical Theologies and Philosophies The Reception of [[Paul]] the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek

| New directions in critical [[theory]] [[Democracy]] in what [[state]]? | Radical Theologies and Philosophies The Reception of [[Paul]] the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek

...century, the psychoanalyst's is perhaps the loftiest, because it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge. ...this very gap which renders every empirical object unsatisfactory? Indeed, in the following paragraphs of the ''Rapport de Rome'' itself, Lacan already o

...have ''gone beyond ''Descartes. We go beyond everything and always end up in the same place. ...stern philosophy can be defined as the history of rejections of Platonism: in a homologous way, the entire modern philosophy can be conceived as the hist

...indly smiling at you and telling you ''You're OK! I trust you fully!''… (In one of the Oprah Winfrey shows, Gray di­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the ...'hard facts' but the Real of a traumatic encounter whose structuring role in the subject's psychic economy forever resists its symbolic rewriting.

...get thirsty. So, when the slogan for Coke was "Coke is it!", we should see in it some ambiguity — it's "it" precisely insofar as it's ''never'' IT, p ...the case of caffeine-free diet Coke that we almost literally drink nothing in the guise of something?<span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-105" class="ezoic

...n a healthy and a pathological mode of enjoying the ugly in a work of art; in order to be aesthetically enjoyable and, as such, edifying and permissible, ...is third term not also be conceived of as the sublime, insofar as the ugly in its chaotic and over­whelming monstrosity that threatens to destroy the su