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• Are We in a War
  ...nitarian refugee camps are, paradoxically, the two faces, 'inhuman' and '[[human]]', of one sociological [[matrix]]. Asked [[about]] the [[German]] concentr ...ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call for a 'humanitarian pacifis
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• Oedipus complex
  ...hough the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of [[human]] development, no one paper is devoted to it. --> ...l negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a precondition for entry into the human symbolic order.
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• Surrealism
  ...ical]] and [[external]], the other exploring the deepest recesses of the [[human]] mind and unfolding its truths in the work of art. ...which the conscious mind represented only one small part. They thought of human experiences in the [[form]] of a pyramid, the narrow peak of which is the l
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• Frankfurt School
  ...r contributions in two areas relating to the possibility of [[rational]] [[human]] [[subject]]s, i.e. individuals who could act rationally to take charge of ...he [[epistemological]] [[discussion]] to a new level in his "Knowledge and Human Interests" ([[1968]]), by [[identifying]] critical knowledge as based on pr
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• Administered World
  ...uffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would [[present
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• Parallax View
  ...s neither from his own viewpoint, nor from the viewpoint of others, but to face the reality that is exposed through difference (parallax)."<ref>Karatani, o ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...of course, are what pose the <i>[[true]]</i> threat to [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] (e.g., the [[London]] police’s [[recent]] execution of the innoc ...turn into a [[singular]] [[antagonism]]? Or, as we so often hear, "In the face of the terrorist threat, we must all come together and forget our petty dif
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• The Desert of the Real
  tells us that the “[[human]] rights record” (to use an anachronistic the left’s political and [[ethical]] defeat in the face of acts of quite
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...ex-[[Yugoslavia]], it is Ika Saric, a modest judge in Croatia who, in the face of threats to her [[life]] and without any [[visible]] [[public]] support, ...much that they are ready to legalize torture—the ultimate degradation of human dignity—to [[defend]] it. And, along the same lines, we may lose “Europ
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...d to this platitude: “If we [[want]] to be able to look ourselves in the face every morning, anyone who earns more than the average wage in a rich countr ...s [[role]] as exporters of [[democracy]] and guardians of [[universal]] [[human rights]].
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...gn="justify"><font face="[[Times]] New Roman,Times,Courier" size="3"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Courier" size="3"> ...ssional priests; but [[inside]] that inhuman guard you will find the old [[human]] life dancing like [[children]], and drinking wine like men; for Christian
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]]. ...books that, from this liberal perspective, the basic perception of another human being is always as something that may in some way hurt you.
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...lism" effectively WAS an attempt to reassert a "Socialism with a [[human]] face," i.e. to reinscribe the [[process]] of industrialization into the constrai ...f a victim of circumstances beyond his control. Every contact with another human being is experienced as a potential [[threat]] - if the other smokes, if he
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...] of her tissue demonstrates that she is not composed of atoms like normal human beings - beneath a certain micro-level, there is nothing, just void. Finall ...[[words]], if the first Harey, before her suicide on Earth, was a "normal human [[being]]", the second one is a [[Subject]] in the most radical [[sense]] o
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) - which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing in ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
  63 KB (10,769 words) - 14:59, 12 November 2006
• NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
  ...tected by the sovereignty of states. The Alliance acted out of respect for human rights, in a way commanded not only by conscience but by the relevant docum ...oaked and justified exclusively in the depoliticized language of universal human rights. In this context, men and women are no longer political subjects, bu
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf of the violation of human rights. The first glimpse into this other side is provided by the way the b ...cal efficiency, too different from the standard notion of a heroic face to face combat, so that [[images]] would perturb too much the public opinion and a
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  no [[human]] [[form]]. The commonplace [[position]] is here that pagan (pre-[[Jewish]] human passions), while the Jewish [[religion]], with its iconoclasm, was the firs
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...divine grace is truly universal (i.e., nonexclusionary), available to all human beings regardless of race, sex, or social status. ...the simple, innocent prelapsarian life once and forever lost to us mortal human beings. The universe in which we live, our "way of the flesh," is one in wh
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow
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