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• A Plea for Ethical Violence
  ==‘A Plea for Ethical Violence’ by Slavoj Žižek | 2004 | Audio == ...org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slavoj.%C5%BDi%C5%BEek.A.Plea_.For_.Ethical.Violence.2004-Theoryleaks.mp3}}
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• Jouissance
  ..., a classic pervert who tries to hide his enjoyment behind his perceived [[ethical]] obligation. Put in other terms, he expresses the classic [[ideological]]
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...be this or that [[substance theory|substance]], this or that destiny, no [[ethical]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however, that hum ...ead, he explains that our task would be to radically differentiate "pure [[violence]]" from right, instead of tying them together, as did Carl Schmitt.
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• Deconstruction
  ...sm]] that wishes the utter [[destruction]] of Western [[scientific]] and [[ethical]] values. As a rule, deconstruction is ridiculed by members of the [[politi ...ories' willful misdescription or simplification of [[reality]] always does violence to the [[true]] richness and complexity of the [[world]]. This criticism c
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...gh Lacan’s “Borromean knot”, copes better with the complexities of [[ethical]] [[practice]]. ...unprincipled pragmatism. Th is lose/lose circularity suggests that viable ethical practice cannot depend on either/or choices between binary opposites.
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...egaard thought he was able to write on various aspects of the aesthetic, [[ethical]] and religious stages of life, while his pseudonyms prevented readers from ...this suspension of the ethical and leap into the religious is a type of [[violence]].
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• Politics
  ...e effected without "the [[terrorism]] that characterizes every authentic [[ethical]] stance."<ref>Did 91</ref> ...it effective is the hidden support of [[fantasy]] and the [[traumatic]] [[violence]] which that fantasy transmits/disguises.
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• Violence
  ...that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me, but that this war can never be a solution. ...role of the Fascist [[spectacle]] of violence is exactly opposite: it is a violence whose aim is to PREVENT the [[true]] [[change]] - something spectacular sho
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...esearch into how to fight the new forms of ethnic, [[religious]] or sexist violence. The problem is that all this occurs against the background of a fundamenta ...ualizes Jeremiah [[Bentham]], the father of utilitarianism: the ultimate [[ethical]] criterion is not the dignity ([[rationality]], soul) of man, but the abil
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...posed to the everyday [[social]] [[reality]] — the Real in its extreme [[violence]] as the price to be paid for peeling off the deceiving layers of reality. ...nd that, in a strictly [[perverse]] way, the revolutionary has to cling to violence as the only [[index]] of his authenticity, and it is as this level that the
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...ess in our megalopolises, a violence one is tempted to call Id-[[Evil]], a violence grounded in no utilitarian or ideological reasons. All the talk [[about]] [ ..., by the paradoxical reemergence of the brute [[Real]] of "[[irrational]]" violence, impermeable and insensitive to reflexive interpretation. So the more today
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...nning afresh from a zero point. Consequently, there is also a terrifying [[violence]] at work in this uncoupling, that of the death [[drive]], of the radical w ...ast to it, the Pope reminds us that there is a price to pay for a proper [[ethical]] attitude. It is his very stubborn clinging to old values, his ignoring th
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...entical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulgence in pleasurable [[violence]]. A lot-everything, perhaps-is at stake here: is there a line from Kantian ...everybody [[know]] what the point of the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...y]], this coincidence of the purest [[idealism]] with the most destructive violence already analysed by [[Hegel]] in the famous chapter of his [[Phenomenology] ...h more effectively 'forecloses' it, so that the postmodern forms of ethnic violence, with their '[[irrational]]' excessive [[character]], are no longer simple
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...foundation of a [[multitude]] of "[[regressive]]" phenomena (from ethnic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psy ...s own desire, to which one owes fidelity-desire elevated to the level of [[ethical]] [[Duty]]. Thus "ne pas ceder sur son desir" is ultimately another way of
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...y the Grace of the insight into the [[necessity]] of [[Communism]], all my ethical integrity will make me no more than an honest small-bourgeois humanitarian ...e case of [[being]] aware of his innocence would have been an unpardonable ethical sin. Bukharin inverts this [[relationship]]: if Stalin accuses Bukharin of
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...search into how to fight the new forms of ethnic, [[religious]], or sexist violence. The problem is that all this occurs against the background of a fundamenta ...provides the Darwinian background.<ref>See Peter Singer, Writings on an [[Ethical]] Life (New York, 2000).</ref>
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• You May
  ...slogan, can serve as an efficient answer to the gun: an [[outburst]] of [[violence]] is a passage à l'[[acte]] rooted in the subject's [[ignorance]]. But the ...tions of younger comrades) as by [[official]] regulations. This sexualised violence does not undermine order in the barracks: it functions as its direct libidi
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...e course of the hero's ordeal is not only his character, but also the very ethical standard by which we measure his character. And did not something of the sa ...establish the normative conditions or presuppositions of our cognitive and ethical claims: Hegel's logic is not a system of universal ontology, but just a sys
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...titute the tradition of a [[community]], what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]], ...n its [[SuperEgo|superego]]-Real, as a murderous explosion of sacrifical [[violence]] to pay off the obscene [[SuperEgo|superego]] divinity.<br><br>
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...es of the XXth century, catastrophes which unleashed unheard-of modes of [[violence]]. There are [[three]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) ...exts]] an oscillation between this teleological "conversion"-[[theory]] of violence and a much more interesting <b>notion of history as an open-undecided proce
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• Move the Underground!
  ...should recall here one of the most discusting rituals of the anti-black [[violence]] in the Old US south: a black guy is cornered by white thugs and then comp ...he clandestine night-time beating of a fellow-soidier who has broken the [[ethical]] standards of the Marines. Such a code condones an act of transgression, i
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...nsequent [[materialism]] which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. ...s - among them, surprisingly, Henry David Thoreau, the great opponent of [[violence]]: against the standard dismissal of Brown as blood-thirsty, foolish and in
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• Opera
  ...[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[l ...of the end of the world is ultimately Wotan's own guilt, the result of his ethical fiasco - in Hegelese, external opposition is the effect of inner contradict
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...uilty]] in front of everyone, but I am that more than all [[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is ...ap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, to put it bluntly, something in Islam re ...y the Other, every ethical pressure is experienced as a false front of the violence of power. This stance gives rise to the effort to "rewrite" religious injun
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...n, bringing to the light the [[obscene]] underworld of perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out of time, he is the true outcast
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...nts to eradicate, so that, as [[Brecht]] put it apropos of revolutionary [[violence]] in his <i>The Measure Taken</i>, he wants to be the last piece of dirt wi ...he basic discursive strategies of legitimizing suffering: Job's properly [[ethical]] dignity resides in the way he persistently detects the notion that his su
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th ...za - is the only solution to the crisis. However, since Mitzma is a decent ethical figure lacking _strong maní charisma, they don't trust him to be able to a
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...of democracy, the theatralization of [[politics]], the inevitability of [[violence]] — three features which directly contradict the three dogmas of today's ...ematic [[scene]] rendering the exuberant orgy of revolutionary destructive violence (what Eisenstein himself called "a veritable bacchanalia of [[destruction]]
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ==1. Violence, Irrational and Rational== ...he one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively directed against one's own - the cars burned an
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...y playful-ironic reference to God? For a Western liberal, the sight of mob violence cannot but evoke the first line from William Butler Yeats’ “Second Comi ...the main cause of the debilitating deadlock of our reactions to the Muslim violence. These reactions oscillated between the two extremes of clinging to the fre
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature,
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• Revolution
  ...all the [[time]] so that, precisely, [[nothing]] would really happen.<ref>violence</ref></blockquote>
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• The Pope's Failures
  ..., betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...“[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly
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• The Desert of the Real
  of ruthless [[violence]] and [[destruction]] to the “savage” Outside. It’s the left’s political and [[ethical]] defeat in the face of acts of quite
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...the courage to recognize the obvious fact that there is a deep strain of [[violence]] and in[[tolerance]] in [[Islam]] — that, to put it bluntly, something i ...gh [[materialism]] that is able to sustain a truly ascetic, militant and [[ethical]] stance.
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...to privilege and elevate some [[object]] above [[others]]. [[Love]] is [[violence]] not (only) in the vulgar [[sense]] of the [[Balkan]] proverb, "If he does ...ht on the mad dance of billion-dollar speculations with his philosophico-[[ethical]] [[statement]], "Release your attachment to something that is not there in
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...rals in Bergmanland" abounds with the topics of meaningless outbursts of [[violence]], often suicidal one, miserable disappointments in [[love]] [[life]], late "The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of [[ethical]] abnegations and professional priests; but [[inside]] that inhuman guard y
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, to put it bluntly, something in Islam re ...y the Other, every ethical pressure is experienced as a false front of the violence of power. This stance gives rise to the effort to "rewrite" religious injun
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...harges that you are promoting [[terrorism]] or romanticizing revolutionary violence?<br><br>
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th ...za - is the only solution to the crisis. However, since Mitzma is a decent ethical figure lacking _strong maní charisma, they don't trust him to be able to a
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• You May!
  ...slogan, can serve as an efficient answer to the gun: an [[outburst]] of [[violence]] is a <i>passage à l'[[acte]]</i> rooted in the subject's [[ignorance]]. ...tions of younger comrades) as by [[official]] regulations. This sexualised violence does not undermine order in the barracks: it functions as its direct libidi
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf ...ldren on all sides, so stop the bombing, more violence never helped to end violence, it just pushes us deeper into the vortex..."
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  the [[natural]] [[state]] of [[violence]] to the civil state of peace guaranteed by legitimate [[power]]. ground, no intersection, between the state of natural violence and the state of civil peace;
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...foundation of a [[multitude]] of "[[regressive]]" phenomena (from ethnic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psy ...s own desire, to which one owes fidelity-desire elevated to the level of [[ethical]] [[Duty]]. Thus "ne pas ceder sur son desir" is ultimately another way of
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• Kant And Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...entical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulgence in pleasurable [[violence]]. A lot-everything, perhaps-is at stake here: is there a line from Kantian ...everybody [[know]] what the point of the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...of their co-existence without any guarantee of some meta-norm [[Kant]]'s [[ethical]] [[philosophy]] was already its exemplary case. In Coldness and [[Cruelty] ...irical content in order to ascertain if this content meets the criteria of ethical adequacy. Rather, the empty form of the Law functions as the promise of an
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• Transgression
  ...cluding within the [[psychoanalytical]] [[community]], with the focus on [[ethical]] debates. ...ing the [[dual]] prohibition of [[incest]] and rejection. The aggressive [[violence]] repressed at the time of the oedipal conflict doubtless has an earlier an
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• The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology
  ...of the inhuman and challenge the influence of [[Levinas]] on contemporary ethical thought.
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...eople about him — the ruthless will to discard all prejudices. Why not [[violence]]? Horrible as it may sound, I think it's a useful antidote to all the asep ...the [[plurality]] of stories with no universal truth value is the ultimate ethical horizon.</p>
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