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...f [[Psychological trauma|trauma]] through [[literary]] studies informed by philosophy, [[psychology]], [[neurology]], and [[Freudian]] and [[Lacanian]] theory).

..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel ...She presented with symptoms such as paralysis of the limbs, [[Dissociative identity disorder|split personality]] and amnesia; today these symptoms are known as

...whose [[complete]] works he edited in Italian [[translation]]. Agamben's [[philosophy]] draws from [[Michel Foucault]] as well as from Italian neo-[[marxist]] th ...[[other]] occupied countries was made possible by the photos taken from [[identity cards]] {{ref|Lemonde_2005}}. Furthermore, Agamben's political criticisms o

...arliest work was very much a reaction to the trend of [[existentialist]] [[philosophy]] that was prominent during the [[1940s]], specifically towards the figureh ...quired an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or [[identity]] towards a given [[object]]. Even carefully crafted neutral writing could

...ade major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhe Butler’s ''[[Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]]'' (1990) is frequently cited as one of the most influential books of the

...rmation. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[mind]]), artificial intelligence, semantic, syntactic, and lexical m ...is more [[recent]] (M. C. Hardy-Baylé, 1996) and is based on work in the philosophy of mind and a renewed interest in [[phenomenology]] as well as on expert sy

...is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and The term ''deconstruction'' in the context of Western philosophy is highly resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perh

'''[[German]] [[Idealism]]''' was a [[philosophy|philosophical]] movement in [[Germany]] in the late [[eighteenth century|ei ...known indirectly. This is the meaning that should be associated with the [[philosophy]] of German Idealism.

...re received. Lacan's [[insistence]] that all notions of a [[stable]] fixed identity are a [[fiction]] rather than [[biologically]] given were seen to provide f ...ndermines any stable or fixed identity and that includes a stable [[sexual identity]]. For early Lacan, sexual difference is not a question of biology but of [

...f his work: the relation between self and language; problems of self and [[identity]]; the main theoretical differences between Lacan and Freud; the influence

...d to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic identity up to a point.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></ ...xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Dr Slavoj Žižek</b> is professor of philosophy at University Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is currently a member of the Director

..., the [[need]] to constrain abstract [[citizenship]] on behalf of ethnic [[identity]], etc.). However, the hegemonic liberal democracy is using this fact to [[ ...ound familiar? Is this, in the [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[tradition]] of analytical philosophy, not the basic position of [[Karl Popper]], the archetypal anti-[[Hegelian]

[[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43. ...uter network, it is easy to imagine an evil programmer erasing our digital identity and thus depriving us of our social existence, turning us into non-persons.

...t) and the "subject of the [[enunciated]] (statement)" (the [[symbolic]] [[identity]] the subject assumes within and via his statement): Kant does not address Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's [[philosophy]] as the crucial antecedent of the [[psychoanalytic]] ethics of the duty "b

...gh the Other. The gesture of criticism here consists in the assertion of [[identity]]: no, it is YOU who believes through the Other (in the theological whimsie ...olic]] and the Real? In the case of (symbolic) belief, you [[disavow]] the identity (you do not recognize yourself in the belief which is yours); in the case o

...ial, contingent.<ref>See F.W.J. von Schelling, <i>On the History of Modern Philosophy</i>, Cambridge: CUP, 1994.</ref> It is precisely insofar as woman is chara ...as the passage from [[being]] to having? That is to say, in Schelling's [[philosophy]], (what previously was) a Being becomes a predicate of a higher Being; (wh

...'t see anything very revolutionary in this return to Spinoza. Contemporary philosophy is [[conscious]] of what we were just discussing, that is, of the Spinozist You formulate your [[identity]] on the fantasy that the Other is the one who automatically wants to steal

...al social body, fixing the rules of political competition, etc. `Political philosophy' is thus, in all its different shapes, a kind of `[[defence]]-[[formation]] ...cized). To put it in Hegel's terms, what is crucial is their speculative [[identity]], i.e. the `infinite judgement', `Humanitarian depoliticized compassion is

...tuation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot provide access to the specif ...s not yet well-known in Anglo-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his dep

...tterns of interaction, from the forms of sexual partnership up to ethnic [[identity]] itself, have to be renegotiated or reinvented.<ref>See Ulrich Beck, [[Wor ...are to survive we have to change our most fundamental notions of personal identity, society, [[environment]], and so forth. New Age wisdom claims that we are

...., this external gaze is internal to Dick, part of his immanent subjective identity - he leads his life in order to satisfy this gaze. What this implies, furth ...post-Kantian speculative-historical approach is the highest achievement of philosophy):<br><br>

...nse]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[Mind]]</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971, p. 44.</ref> ...in order then to unite." And, again, it is crucial not to confuse this "[[identity of the opposite]]" with the standard pagan motif of a divinity who has two

...l]] not already on the trace of it with his insight into the speculative [[identity]] of [[Judaism]] and Islam? According to a commonplace, Judaism (like Islam ...- and the speculative reading - the spirit is strong enough to assert its identity with the utmost inert stuff and to "sublate" it, i.e. even the utmost inert

...e by citizenship and not citizenship by man."<ref>Etienne Balibar, "Is a [[Philosophy]] Of. Human Rights Possible," in <i>South Atlantic Quaterly</i> 2/3, Spring ...ly of" my [[profession]], [[sex]], [[citizenship]], [[religion]], [[ethnic identity]]...).

...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...]] in the area - legitimizes itself in the terms of its ethnic-religious [[identity]], while the Palestinians - decried as pre-modern "fundamentalists" - legit

...nted as documentary shots is to be taken as an indication of this deeper [[identity]] of people playing themselves.<br><br> ...the lines." The true, hidden message contained in the "Great Tradition" of philosophy from [[Plato]] to [[Hobbes]] and Locke is that there are no gods, that [[mo

...ified]] as a powerless [[victim]] of circumstance, deprived of political [[identity]], reduced to bare suffering. As such, she is beyond political recriminatio

...[[Jewish]] [[religion]] of his [[parents]] -- though not his [[Jewish]] [[identity]] -- and considered himself an [[atheist]]. [[Freud]] regarded [[monotheis [[Category:Philosophy]]

...''' is the [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[concept]] central to the [[moral philosophy]] of [[Immanuel Kant]] and to modern [[deontological ethics]]. He introduce He expressed extreme [[dissatisfaction]] with the [[moral]] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never surpass the level of hypoth

...xism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The grouping emerged at the [[Institute for Social Research]] (''Institu ...rman]] [[idealism]], principally [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]]'s philosophy, with its emphasis on [[negation]] and [[contradiction]] as inherent proper

...of the Enlightenment of all: an end to [[human]] [[suffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to [[Category:Philosophy]]

...arian class struggle is to allow the [[bourgeoisie]] to fully assert its [[identity]] and strivings... In one case, we have a "horizontal" logic of the recogni * [[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]. ''Melbourne School of Continental [[Philosophy]]''. September 17, 2005. <http://mscp.org.au/>. Also listed at ''[[Lacan.co

...l too free-[[floating]], [[lacking]] a solid [[social]] and professional [[identity]], so that they can only be accepted at the price of a special qualificatio ...critique suspicious: distrust of intellectuals is ultimately distrust of [[philosophy]] itself.

...countries _- is a more risky strategy: of not just playing this liberal [[identity]] [[politics]] game for the media. What if we risk, and this doesn't mean v ...s [[philosophy]], and all the rest is a footnote. [Chuckles]. I think that philosophy is something for which [[Spinoza]] laid the ground, but Spinoza's edifice m

...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...]] in the area - legitimizes itself in the terms of its ethnic-religious [[identity]], while the Palestinians - decried as pre-modern "fundamentalists" - legit

...of the ground and the subject's [[freedom]], while, already in his early [[philosophy]] of [[identity]], Schelling's ultimate [[goal]] is to bring the two together, demonstratin

...tuation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot provide access to the specif ...s not yet well-known in Anglo-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his dep

...t]] of [[modernity]], up to the deconstructionist notion that our sexual [[identity]] is a [[contingent]] socio-symbolic [[formation]]: the moment this prohibi ...ble if one replaces "grain" with some feature which determines my symbolic identity. Look at what occurs in our daily dealings with the bureaucratic hierarchy?

...'t see anything very revolutionary in this return to Spinoza. Contemporary philosophy is [[conscious]] of what we were just discussing, that is, of the Spinozist You formulate your [[identity]] on the fantasy that the Other is the one who automatically wants to steal

Anarchism is an [[enlightenment]]-based radical political [[philosophy]], at the heart of which is a [[dialectical]] relationship between freedom ...identity]] of the master - the one who is recognized - is dependent on the identity of the slave - the one who recognizes. This introduces into the relationshi

...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

...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 [

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

...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

Zizek's own polemic against multicultural [[identity]] politics. And talking longer the [[State]] [[philosophy]]. It was some kind of vague [[humanist]] marxism,

...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

...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

...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>

<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

...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

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

...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

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]].

...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

...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

...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.

...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>

...iplines, such as ethnology, [[sociology]], [[political]] [[theory]], and [[philosophy]].

...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]]

...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

...justice]]; symmetrically, our own - the populist [[political agent]]'s - [[identity]] is also perceived as pre-existing the enemy's onslaught. Let us take Lac ...ss out of the operation of hegemonic logic. For me, emptiness is a type of identity, not a structural location."<ref>Laclau, op.cit., p. 166.</ref> The two emp

...horitarian personality." In addition to ridiculing patriotism and racial [[identity]], the Frankfurt [[school]] glorified promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Ce ...ive land and native tongue. . . . The idea is to disarm the bombs . . . of identity that nationstates build to [[defend]] themselves against the stranger, agai

Ego [[identity]] [[Gender]] identity

...himself, received an education emphasizing classical [[literature]] and [[philosophy]]. Little did he [[know]] that this education would eventually serve him we ...did not reject his [[Jewish]] roots. In fact, he was proud of his Jewish [[identity]] and did not attempt to hide his Jewish heritage, though his [[relationshi

...aratory chapters, on [[Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]], [[surrealism]] and [[philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on ...he pranaun as a '[[shifter]]'. The'!, with which we speak stands far aur [[identity]] as subjects in language, but it is the least [[stable]] entity in languag

...'s "immanentism" (the march of the [[conscious]] subject to [[complete]] [[identity]] with itself in [[total]] [[self]]-[[awareness]]) as an account of the vag ...version (i.e., the overthrow) of the Cartesian subject (i.e., the presumed identity of [[subjectivity]] and conscious thought). Freud's assault on man's concep

...m philosophy to psychology and the law) that shape our current politics of identity, but also, and more importantly, of the manner in which we understand, expe ...taphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor'' (2012), and ''Immanence: Deleuze and Philosophy'' (2010).

...atician and soldier who is often referred to as the [[Father]] of Modern [[Philosophy]]. Descartes' starting point for the cogito was a cold winter's day. It was ...d that I could accept it without scruple as the first [[principle]] of the philosophy I was seeking.

...are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your [[philosophy]]" (1910c, 11: 137n.): Freud's favorite quotation from any source, accordin ...-xvi). In this spirit, Janet Adelman (1992) has [[analyzed]] [[masculine]] identity and "fantasies of [[maternal]] [[power]]" and of "the maternal [[body]]" in

...and suspicion, and have subordinated it to the [[needs]] and objectives of philosophy, which has allowed [[them]] to contest or reject it. ...enquiry have been evaluated differently by the two disciplines. For Freud, philosophy has repeatedly been concerned with the question of the [[unconscious]]. Ind

...of consciousness in the definition of the human [[psyche]]. This sense of identity, this initial [[subjective]] stance, is established gradually, being linked ...the subject from the self-consciousness heretofore upheld by [[Hegelian]] philosophy and the [[solipsism]] of the [[Cartesian]] [[cogito]]. In "The [[Mirror]] [

...father represents the [[symbolic order]], represents not in the sense of [[identity]], such that when L speaks of the father he is speaking of the symbolic. R ...fication that says, finally, "It's a mitten" or "That [e.g. Manderley, a [[philosophy]] professor, an advertising producer, a man, a [[woman]]] is me." </p><p>

to lecture to the [[philosophy]] group of the <i>Fédération des étudiants dès<br> [[identity]] - a fault of habit, but its effect on the [[mind]] is such that the [[tru

...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 ...as the <i>tuchi </i>brings us back to the same point at which pre-Socratic philosophy sought to motivate the world itsele</p><p>

...the pursuit of [[happiness]], whether through [[marriage]], the study of [[philosophy]], or the consumption of pornography, merely lead to loneliness and [[frust ...y a man (or vice versa) would not prove anything, because the [[gender]] [[identity]] does not depend on the sequences of [[symbols]], while a successful imita

...ant to [[understand]] that Lacan drew on a wide range of influences from [[philosophy]] and experimental [[psychology]] in [[order]] to formulate his ideas in th ...or understanding Lacan, however, and especially where he adopts ideas from philosophy, [[anthropology]] and [[linguistics]], is that he always transforms [[conce

...pture, and which is not at all constituted by but, rather, punctuated by [[philosophy]].<br><br> ...he identity of the Idea. We could say that the Pre-Socratics differentiate identity, while Plato identifies difference. This is perhaps the source of Lacan's p

...llowed in Žižek’s path, combining psychoanalytic theory and [[social]] philosophy by [[interpreting]] Kant through Lacan, and vice versa, in [[Ethics]] of th ...e in the Symbolic. In Gender Trouble: Feminism and the [[Subversion]] of [[Identity]] (1990)Butler criticizes Lacan’s theoretical [[construction]] of the Sym

...attempt to interrogate and expand the concept of normal by moving beyond [[identity]]-laden quests seeking to uncover what homosexuality (and [[heterosexuality ...s the basis of his work, including Theorizing the Moving Image (1996)and A Philosophy of Mass Art (1998). Carroll is among a significant cluster of film theoreti

...agmatics and [[discourse]] [[analysis]], studies (inspired by linguistic [[philosophy]]) of [[speech]] [[acts]], speech genres, and [[text]] structure; socioling ...erary terms and models derive from varieties of linguistics and linguistic philosophy.

Freud argued, in short, that sexual [[identity]] is not merely anatomically determined, but psychically constructed. Until ...its [[parents]] as critical for the [[achievement]] of its proper [[sexual identity]]. [[Love]] of the [[mother]] is dominant in the early formative years. Lat

...nd Levi-[[Strauss]], a generation which was antagonistic to the academic [[philosophy]] of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a generation that reacted bitterly against The uses of philosophy 33

The uses of [[philosophy]] 39 The uses of philosophy 41

...ee Note 2 below.</ref> It is an experience which leads us to oppose any [[philosophy]] directly issuing from the ''[[Cogito]]''. ...hopaedic -and to the assumption, finally, of the armour of an alienating [[identity]], which will stamp with the rigidity of its structure the [[whole]] of the

...[[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a [[passion]] for [[philosophy]], adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[ ...erested here in this [[complex]] relation to [[image]]s and the ideas of [[identity]] to be found in [[paranoia]]. In her subsequent arrest and confinement, s

* [https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/troubles-with-identity/ Troubles with Identity] * [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antisemitic-zionist-jewish-identity-muslim-islamophobia-immigration-migrants-racism-a8022726.html There's a dan

...Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's philosophy as the crucial antecedent of the psychoanalytic ethics. As such, Kantian et ...ia to Holland, in the new spirit of pride at one's cultural and historical identity, the main parties now find it acceptable to stress that the immigrants are

...and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chamberlain, <i>The Philosophy Steamer</i>, London: Atlantic Books 2006, p. 270) ...reformer and Muslim fundamentalist war leader up to respected professor of philosophy, his entire career marked by the strange admiration for Pierre Bourdieu's t

...thics]], [[subjectivity]], [[sovereignty]], [[violence]], and collective [[identity]]. ...lican traditions (and their critics) to [[critical theory]], continental [[philosophy]], and post-[[Marxist]], post-structuralist, and (Lacanian) [[psychoanalyti

...s also the domain of political ecology, the ethical field of resistance to identity and predictable paths. It's very troubling and confusing, because it seems ...cial moment, a moment at which there is not any world' /.../ As a result: 'Philosophy has no other legitimate aim except to help find the new names that will bri

...ces; mindlessly brave cowards... <ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>Lectures On the Philosophy of World History, Introduction: [[Reason]] in History</i>, Cambridge: Cambr ...into the history of <i>Cogito</i> at two levels. First, throughout entire philosophy of subjectivity from Descartes through Kant, Schelling and Hegel, to [[Niet

...ne does not [[change]] one's dwelling, one is deprived of a [[particular]] identity with its local color – or, to put it again in Deleuze's [[terms]], state' ...is that, from the very beginning, the Argentinean [[ideological]] [[self]]-identity relied on an [[alienating]] [[identification]] with the Other’s gaze. The

..., "Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom," in <em>Philosophy of German Idealism</em>, ed. by Ernst Behler, New York: Continuum 1987, p. Recall the second of Benjamin’s "Theses on the Philosophy of History": "The past carries with it a temporal index by which it is refe

...has to be applied to zombies: at the most elementary level of our human [[identity]], we are all zombies, and our "higher" and "free" human activities can onl ...ilosophy]] of Spirit</em> begins with the study of the same topic that <em>Philosophy of [[Nature]]</em> ends with: the soul and its functions. This redoubling p

...tworked_learning networked learning] where individuals establish an online identity and formulate relationships with other people and information to communicat ...lity? What is philosophy? Topics covered include: philosophy of religion - philosophy of mind - epistemology - ethics - free will / determinism - metaphysics - l

* [[Voyeurism and Digital Identity]] | 18. May 2015 * [[Lacan’s Hypothesis: Psychoanalysis as the Ex-Timate Core of Philosophy]] | 31. October 2016

...Hitchcock’s Vertigo to explore concepts of the Gaze, Otherness, Culture, Identity, and what in naive terms we mean by Fantasy and Reality.

...ve in the [[psychoanalytic]] [[tradition]] to fundamental problems in both philosophy and politics that much of Žižek’s [[theoretical]] [[power]] and origina ...s really not an [[object]] (in the [[sense]] of [[Anglo-Saxon]] analytical philosophy) at all, but the object-[[cause]] of desire, that is, that which makes us d

...el, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial pr ...g it to perennial topics in philosophy such as substance, accident and the identity of the subject. Catherine Malabou’s also contrasts her account of Hegelia

...critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. The text follows the developme

...re of Hegel ''gives a unique insight into Althusser’s engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.

...a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identity seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freedom t ...ing celebrities’ lifestyles – and fusing sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Salecl shows that choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision wit

...istian tradition is one of the key ingredients of the expending right-wing identity politics in Europe (and more largely, in the West), including its more or l .../alenka-zupancic/the-shortest-shadow/ ''The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two'']; [http://theory.local/text/books/alenka-zupancic/why-psychoan

...st film profile will serve to popularize her insightful analysis of sexual identity and gender roles at a time when the cultural and political debate over thes

...ch, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of ...tity_And_Its_Vicissitudes_Hegels_Logic_Of_Essence_As_A_Theory_Of_Ideology|'Identity And Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic Of Essence' As A Theory Of Ideology' b

...t of psychoanalysis is nothing other than the subject of science. But this identity can only be grasped by attempting to think the subject ''in its own place'' a. It is possible to reinterrogate the entire history of philosophy since its Greek origin under the hypothesis of a mathematical ordering of t

...uspicions. For philosophy, since Plato, means breaking with opinion polls. Philosophy is supposed to scrutinize everything that is spontaneously considered as "n ...subscribes to the classical political thinking filiation, including Greek philosophy, which contends that "democracy" must ultimately be conceived as a sovereig

I. PHILOSOPHY AND THE SEXES ...partly a strategy of seduction. Besides, it is from the bias of love that philosophy touches upon the sexes, to the extent that it is to Plato that Lacan must l

...er; even more so, he "deconstructs" the attempt to locate a sphere outside philosophy, demonstrating how all anti-philosophical efforts to determine this Other r ...perceived (not only) by common sense as the very epitome of the madness of philosophy, of its crazy paranoid system-building (cf. the "philosopher as madman" mot

="from socrates onward the function of philosophy is to corrupt youth" by Slavoj Žižek= ...ormalizing" philosophers who try to restore the lost balance and reconcile philosophy with the established order: Aristotle with regard to Plato, Thomas Aquinas

...el's "madness", the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained a ...rprets them as the series of exclusions and inclusions that constitute the identity of every object. "Determinate negation" means that if the chair I am sittin

...a statement) and the "subject of the enunciated (statement)" (the symbolic identity the subject assumes within and via his statement): Kant does not address th Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's philosophy as the crucial antecedent of the psychoanalytic ethics of the duty "beyond

...ediator that has to become invisible if the subject is to achieve symbolic identity, to accomplish the gesture of subjectivization. In short, the "unthought" o 4 Louis Althusser, ''Philosophy of the Encounter'', London: Verso 2006, pp. 103–4.

...hat provides it with its paradigm by revealing the structure in which this identity is realized as disjunctive of the subject, and without appealing to the fut ...t simply look at the past from the present position; although he prohibits philosophy from speculation about the future and restricts it to comprehending what ''

...lf and expanding, it requires some independent form, by means of which its identity may at any time be established. And this form it possesses only in the shap ...t of self-positing is then equated with the central Christian tenet of the identity of God-the-Father and his Son, of the immaculate conception in which the si

...history of rejections of Platonism: in a homologous way, the entire modern philosophy can be conceived as the history of rejections of Cartesianism, from subtle # the "''democratic''" anti-Platonism of political philosophy, from Popper to Arendt: Plato as the originator of "closed society," as the

...cally, one does not change one's dwelling, one is deprived of a particular identity with its local color – or, to put it again in Deleuze's terms, state's te ...s means is that, from the very beginning, the Argentinean ideological self-identity relied on an alienating identification with the Other's gaze. The same hold

...ch, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of ...tity_And_Its_Vicissitudes_Hegels_Logic_Of_Essence_As_A_Theory_Of_Ideology|'Identity And Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic Of Essence' As A Theory Of Ideology' b

...God, only draws the conse­quence from Jewish iconoclasm by asserting the identity of God and man. ...passive object of other's enjoyment (the lower level: $ – a). In Kant's philosophy, the faculty of desire is 'pathological', dependent on contingent objects,

...tutes of the Thing, keep open the gap of desire." The homology with Kant's philosophy is crucial here: in Kant, one has to avoid two traps, not only the simple u ...s," and we know that the prospect of madness haunts the entirety of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. When Hegel defines madness as withdrawal from the a

* [[Books/Alain Badiou/Second Manifesto For Philosophy]] * [[Books/Alain Badiou/The Adventure Of French Philosophy]]