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• Slavoj Žižek
  ...March 1949) is a [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] [[sociologist]], [[postmodern]] [[philosopher]], and [[Lacan]]ian [[cultural critic]]. *[[The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology]]. [[Eric Santner]], Keith Reinhard and SZ. Chicago: [[University]
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  |'''[[Political]] party''' ...ar credits. This led him to a final split with the [[Second International (political)|Second International]], which was composed of these parties. Lenin adopted
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...portant insights into contemporary [[ideological]] [[processes]] – the [[political]] implications and consequences of which reach well beyond the merely sexua ...there to be a [[content]] of belief. Th e seventeenth-century [[French]] [[philosopher]] Blaise [[Pascal]] described the [[performative]] element of belief in rel
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• Alain Badiou
  ...n]] 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly [[chair]] of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École Normale Supérieure] Badiou was trained formally as a [[philosopher]] as a student at the ENS from 1956 to 1961, a period during which he took
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...sy conference devoted to the work of Heidegger, Lacan invites the German [[philosopher]] and his wife to spend a few days in his country house at Guitrancourt. ...personal commitment to [[political]] action, although he was intrigued by political issues. This sceptical attitude brings to [[mind]] Freud’s scepticism ill
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• Semiotics
  ...a difference of [[subjects]]. Different authors have called themselves "[[philosopher]] of language" or "semiotician". This difference does ''not'' match the [[s ...but this narrow focus can inhibit a more general study of the social and [[political]] forces shaping how different media are used and their [[dynamic]] status
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...aspect of the scientific method, he greatly admired [[Theodor Lipps]], a [[philosopher]] and main supporter of the ideas of the subconscious and [[empathy]].<ref> ...ame sense as Lacan: “Not ‘I am not a philosopher’, but ‘I am a not-philosopher’, that is, I stand for the excessive core of philosophy itself, for what
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• Giorgio Agamben
  '''Giorgio [[Agamben]]''' ([[born]] [[1942]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]] who teaches at the [[University]] of [[Verona]]. He also holds a professo ...mary concerns, though without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...erned with "man in the [[singular]]." She described herself instead as a [[political]] theorist because her [[work]] centers on the fact that "men, not Man, liv ...hought]] of Saint [[Augustine]], under the direction of the existentialist philosopher-[[psychologist]] [[Karl Jaspers]].
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• Judith Butler
  ...er]] and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Depar Judith Butler is an American philosopher and political theorist well known for her early [[role]] in shaping the field of [[queer
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...the beginning of the twenty-first, countless philosophical, scientific, [[political]], [[religious]] and other changes directly relevant to “The Earliest [[S ...'' at the start of 1999’s ''[[The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]'') – Žižek strives to extract from Dennett’s stance resour
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• Deconstruction
  The term '''''deconstruction''''' was coined by [[French]] [[philosopher]] [[Jacques Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities ...hical]] values. As a rule, deconstruction is ridiculed by members of the [[political]] [[right]] of just [[about]] any stripe. Its reception on the [[left]] is
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• Gilles Deleuze
  '''Gilles Deleuze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. The [[political]] turn taken by Deleuze allegedly resulted from him being “[[Félix Guatt
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...) was an [[Algeria]]n-[[born]] [[France|French]] [[literary critic]] and [[philosopher]] of [[Jew]]ish descent, most often referenced as the founder of "[[deconst ...voj]]. ''[[The Ticklish Subject|The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]''. [[London]]: Verso, 1999. pp. 158-9
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• Francis Fukuyama
  ...Science]], and is currently Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political [[Economy]] and Director of the International [[Development]] Program at th
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• Félix Guattari
  ...logy, etc. The F.G.E.R.I. came to [[represent]] aspects of the multiple [[political]] and [[cultural]] engagements of Félix Guattari: the Group for Young His ...work as director of the experimental La Borde clinic and collaborator of [[philosopher]] Gilles Deleuze. ''Chaosophy'' is a groundbreaking introduction to Guattar
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• Jürgen Habermas
  June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf) is a [[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theo
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...]], is generally recognized as the first [[existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. He bridged the gap that existed between [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|H ...h;1896), a prominent civil servant (not to be confused with the [[German]] philosopher [[Friedrich Schlegel|Friedrich von Schlegel]], 1772-1829). For the most pa
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• Claude Lefort
  ...order]] of [[power]], the order of law and the order of [[knowledge]]" ("[[Philosopher]]?", 1985). [[Category:Political theory|Lefort, Claude]]
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• Georg Lukács
  ...'' (April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungary|Hungarian [[Marxist]] [[philosopher]] and [[literary critic]] in the [[tradition]] of [[Western Marxism]]. He In addition to his standing as a Marxist [[political]] thinker, Lukács was an influential [[literary critic]] of the twentieth
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