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• Deconstruction
  ...ning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]] ...eep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[philosophy]], and is unlikely to be resolved simply.
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...re are two Deleuzes. The more accepted Deleuze champions the multitudinous nature of becoming in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''. However, the second Deleuze is much mo ...as a [[quasi-cause]], revolutionary becoming and the notion of the [[post-human]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...actions of characters within the story, but whose specific identity and [[nature]] is unimportant to the [[spectator]] of the film. In ''[[Vertigo (film)|Ve ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...h]]. Much of his [[work]] deals with [[religious]] problems such as the [[nature]] of faith, the institution of the [[Christian Church]], [[Christian]] [[et ...ique of the story, Kierkegaard made several insightful observations on the nature of the [[present]] age and its passionless attitude towards life. One of h
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• Georg Lukács
  ...hat the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconscious]], of [[human]] [[activity]], and this activity, in turn, as the decisive element of the ...he [[category]] of ''[[reification]]'' whereby, due to the [[commodity]] [[nature]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], social relations become objectified, precl
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Freud's speculations on the female Oedipus complex led him to explore the [[nature]] of feminine sexuality but resulted only in a series of unanswered questio ...at its status in the development of [[human]] sexuality is something which nature cannot account for' (1996a: 63). The phallus is the signifier of lack. The
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. ...’[[Civilization and its Discontents]]’’ (1930), the transition from nature to culture.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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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.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Cyberspace
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• The Matrix, or, 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 ...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
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...th his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...[organ]] which provides pleasure, ignoring him/her as the [[Whole]] of a [[human]] Person?), the crucial clue that allows us to discern the contours of "Sad ...n]] (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical [[Evil]]" of human [[nature]]); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain as the only a priori sentim
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...his [[notion]] relies on the [[humanist]] [[ideological]] opposition of "[[human]] persons" versus "things." Is it not one of [[Marx]]'s standard determinat ...n of the genesis of "[[reification]]," is then to demonstrate how original human belief was transposed onto things… The paradox to be maintained is that d
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ional wink to his son, letting him know that, after all, he is also merely human ...) We are dealing here with the same short-circuit as that found in The H ...ne has to assert that there is no substantial guarantee of the progressive nature of women or of the working class-the situation is irreducibly antagonistic
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi ...[[Machine]] ([[Blade Runner]]), the animal is a male ape copulating with a human woman and fully [[satisfying]] her. Does this not materialize two standard
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