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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...mpromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[notion]] of a politics which would not have been a seri ...'s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism's utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes - the term "Really Existing
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...er 14 year old pupil. He's been trying to describe what an authentically [[ethical]] act would be, arguing that no [[objective]] standards would determine it, ...orgivable relish, "that's my answer, when people say, my God, you had your failure in the Seventies, what would you be if you had got that job. I can tell you
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...e of reason ultimately rests on a [[vision]] of the [[individual]] as an [[ethical]] actor in a functional [[community]].<br> ...versely, for its success. "The conventional wisdom is that socialism was a failure because, instead of creating a 'New Man,' it produced a country of cynics w
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...can say that he left a legacy of compromise or triangulation, but the big failure is at this ideological level. He didn't leave behind a platform with which ...the [[plurality]] of stories with no universal truth value is the ultimate ethical horizon.</p>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...d psychoanalysis. In both cases, Zizek's central concern is with a certain failure/excess in the order of being. In German idealism this aspect is made increa ...rder) that confers human status. Thus what is masked in this projection of failure on to Rachel is the traumatic knowledge that it is us, who cannot resolve t
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...'the identity of the subject consists in nothing other than the continual failure of self-reflection'.<a name="27x"></a><a href="#27">²⁷</a> One a ...he issue here is not the critique of Derrida and Levinas — whose liberal ethical and political positions are problematic — but the vantage point from whic
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...he entirety of the social; but each group looks for an explanation of this failure to some external and intrusive element, whose removal would restore an imag ...a difference that is not to be grasped directly but only through the very failure of identity (HP, 89-90).<br><br>
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...act, this exact criticism, often coming from the perspective of a pseudo-[[ethical]], pragmatic <i>Realpolitik</i>, is often made against Zizek. It has been p ...se [[tragic]] [[character]] was that it came to embrace its own inevitable failure. (This is also the [[tragedy]] of a [[figure]] like [[Havel]]: that he wasn
  32 KB (5,154 words) - 20:52, 23 May 2019
• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  The conclusion drawn was that this failure was due to underestimating the depth of Western [[Christian]] spiritual fou ...nce]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom"
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...Absolute, but something bothered me. Do I really have to kill my son to be ethical?" I love this [[total]] naivete. Of course not! The problem is: how does a
  46 KB (7,621 words) - 00:50, 21 May 2019
• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was
  40 KB (7,339 words) - 01:20, 26 May 2019
• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...>And if we are to make any progress, this is what the perspective of the [[ethical]] ends of psychoanalysis, whose significance I am trying to demonstrate her ...deserves. It offers amazing examples of a lack of systematicity - not the failure of a method, but the [[choice]] of a failed method. The so- called [[scient
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...thologizes" Octavia's sacrificial gesture, reducing a pure "disinterested" ethical act to a "pathological" feminine subterfuge. ...thful to her dead husband. The parallel with the literary tradition of the ethical gesture of renunciation which persists when the obstacle is no longer here
  33 KB (5,521 words) - 23:09, 24 May 2019
• Totemism
  ...as the beginning at once of [[social]] organization, of religion, and of [[ethical]] restrictions. Now whether we suppose that such a possibility was a histor
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• Stalinism
  ...n universe - far from accepting these rules, it is the [[duty]] of every [[ethical]] subject to fight such a universe with all means possible, including the [ ...to take measure of our acts and pronounce their "true meaning," their true ethical status. Even Jacques [[Derrida]]'s notion of "[[deconstruction]] as justice
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  The conclusion drawn was that this failure was due to underestimating the depth of Western [[Christian]] spiritual fou ...nce]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'s untimely [[death]], wit
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• Function of Language
  ...days off they never went out. One stormy night lightning caused a po«rer failure. When their employers, a woman and her daughter, returned from an evening o ...demand responded to, but its desire [[exists]] only because of the initial failure of satisfaction. Desire persists as an effect of a primordial absence.
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...iting exception, but an inconsistent elementary "love without limit," an [[ethical]], impure desire. ...st intellectuals. What we have really witnessed is a true debacle, a total failure of the intellectuals in all these cases. This is a very interesting lesson.
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• Transference love
  ...must be the rule during the treatment. Considerations both technical and [[ethical]] [[prohibit]] the analyst from gratifying the solicitations of transferenc ...ferential [[anxiety]] aroused by the interpersonal situation, as well as a failure to deal with personal [[narcissistic]] shortcomings or masochistic tendenci
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was
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