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• Desire
  ...] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], not a [[contingency]], and its [[subjective]] correlate is ...ect that is genuinely revolutionary and that makes possible a [[rational]] critique of the [[notion]] of '[[object relations]]' and its clinical applications.
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• Philosophy
  [[Freud]] regarded "[[philosophy]]" as one of the great [[cultural]] institutions, alongside [[art]] and [[religion]] - the mark of a highly d It is [[Kant]]'s [[philosophy|moral philosophy]] (the ''[[Critique of Practical Reason]]'') which most interests [[Lacan]], and he discusses t
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• Semiotics
  ...closer to some of the [[humanities]] (including [[literary theory]] and [[cultural anthropology]]). ...of other disciplines, especially journals oriented toward philosophy and [[cultural]] criticism.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...state]] of [[psychosexual]] development and awareness. He also turned to [[cultural anthropology|anthropological]] studies of [[totemism]] and argued that tote ...phasized or ignored, such as [[class]] relations. This branch of Freudian critique owes a great deal to the work of [[Herbert Marcuse]].
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• Critical theory
  ...rrational]] [[authority]]. Marx explicitly developed this notion into the critique of [[ideology]] and linked it with the [[practice]] of social [[revolution ...ntellectual pursuits, increasingly scholars are interested in the areas of critique where the two overlap.
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[the big Other]]. And she is too [[pessimistic]] because, by limiting her critique to this fild, she fails to see the possibility of the overhaul of the [[who ...ts own [[impossibility]] or gap. Žižek uses the [[logic]] of the Real to critique Butler’s understanding of the subject’s unconscious attachments to subj
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• Deconstruction
  ...''is''. According to Derrida, deconstruction is neither an [[analysis]], a critique, a method, an act, nor an operation. (Derrida 1985, at 3.) In addition, dec ==Logocentrism and the critique of binary oppositions==
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...War]] and the bulk of the [[20th century]]. Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of va He surmised that to [[understand]] conflict in our age and in the [[future]], cultural rifts must be [[understood]], and culture (instead of the state) must be ac
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...deterministic and essentialist theories of sexual development. The second critique advanced by [[feminism]] is that psychoanalysis always defines women negati ...not mean that sexual identity is the sum of [[natural]] (biological) and [[cultural]] (signifying) elements, but rather that it is that which is left out of th
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...g for his many writings - including <i>The Ticklish Subject</i>, a playful critique of the intellectual assault upon human subjectivity (1).</b><br class="Nets ...</td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">Today's racism is precisely this racism of cultural difference. It no longer says: 'I am more than you.' It says: 'I want my cu
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rovided perfect descriptions of the [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of the [[Cultural]] Studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our dail ...theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of the Cultural Studies chic.
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...attering the isolated tower of the [[liberal]] tolerant attitude and the [[Cultural]] Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal w ...opposition between leading a long [[satisfying]] life full of material and cultural wealth, and dedicating one's life to some transcendent Cause. Two [[philoso
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...mic fashion. Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic p ...his Leninist freedom of choice - not "[[Life]] or [[money]]!" but "Life or critique!" -, combined with Lenin's dismissive attitude towards the "liberal" notion
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  The [[author]] who has provided the ultimate formulation of this critique of psychoanalysis is [[Alain]] [[Badiou]]. He deserves special attention in ...er: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex interactions allow us to account for a given event,
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...atch up with the virtual [[game]]) really the only way to operationalize a critique of capitalism? What if the problem of capitalism is not this solipsistic ma ...urgent task of the economic analysis today is, again, to [[repeat]] Marx's critique of [[political]] [[economy]], without succeeding on to the temptation of th
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e most harmful [[thing]] here would be haste." Against this insistence on "cultural revolution", Stalin opted for the anti-Leninist notion of "building sociali ...ps, in fact, all political 'terror', from the Jacobins to the [[Maoist]] [[Cultural Revolution]], presupposes the displacement of production onto the terrain o
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ...Leninist [[forced]] choice-not "Your [[money]] or your [[life]]!" but "No critique or your life!" combined with his dismissive attitude toward the liberal not
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...e transformative [[process]] of historical [[practice]]. According to this critique, [[the symbolic]] fixes in advance the constraints of compulsory [[heterose ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ontrary, assert antinomy as irreducible, and conceive the point of radical critique not a certain determinate position as opposed to another position, but the ...essity - is also not simply noumenal. In a mysterious subchapter of his <i>Critique of Practical Reason</i> entitled "Of the Wise Adaptation of Man's Cognitive
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  As [[cultural conservatism|cultural conservatives]] would have put it today, [[deconstructionist philosophers]] ...the necessity of illusion on which, among others, Bourdieu insists in his critique of Levi-[[Strauss]]'s explanation of potlatch: it is not enough just to cla
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