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• Deconstruction
  ...y resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perhaps the first to use the term (in contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolit ...156.) Thus, viewed in this way, "the term 'deconstruction', refers in the first [[instance]] to the way in which the 'accidental' features of a text can be
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...ncluded that Derrida eradicates any [[referent]] and, in an auto-created [[world]] of self-referential textuality, celebrates a free play of differences wit ...the other two. To understand Antigone’s act, Žižek explains, one must first note that the monstrous [[Thing]] only becomes a “fellow human like me”
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• Event
  ...ions]] must be met for us to perceive something as really existing? In a [[world]] that’s constantly changing, is anything new really happening? Drawing o
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements throughout the world for more than four decades. ...on the communist ticket as a parliamentary delegate from Martinique to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. Fanon stayed long enough to comp
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• German Idealism
  ...ossible. The mind plays a central [[role]] in influencing the way that the world is experienced. It is this [[notion]] that was taken to heart by Kant's phi ...hing-in-itself that exists outside of the mind. By presenting the external world as an object of faith, Jacobi legitimized belief and its theological [[asso
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...ee and promote his films as artistic masterworks. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they applied their auteur [[theory]], which stresses the ...nting family's upstairs apartment falls under heavy suspicion. This is the first truly "Hitchcockian" film, incorporating such themes as the "wrong man".
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of variegated sovereign [[state]]s. ...to legitimize [[aggression]] by the US-led West against [[China]] and the world of Islam. However, Huntington has also argued that this shift in geopolitic
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...anish]] [[philosopher]] and [[theologian]], is generally recognized as the first [[existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. He bridged the gap that exi ...nd I will be careful to preserve [his [[memory]]] safely hidden from the [[world]]."''<ref name="Dru">Dru, Alexander. ''The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard'
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
  ...[[Freiburg]], as well as by [[Judaism|Jewish religion]]. He was one of the first intellectuals to introduce to France the [[work]] of [[Heidegger]] and [[Hu ...stance are both strongly felt. Upon the revelation of the face a person's first [[natural]] [[desire]] is to [[murder]] the Other. At the same [[time]], t
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  ...hoanalysis vis-à-vis [[government]] [[control]] in [[France]]. He wrote ''First [[Letter]] addressed by Jacques-Alain Miller to An Enlightened Public'', "C ...a and around Columbia University in New York. In 1992 Miller set up the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]], WAP, in [[order]] to advance Lacan's teach
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• Orders
  Of these [[three]] [[terms]], the 'imaginary' was the first to appear, well before the Rome Report of 1953. [[The imaginary]] was then the [[world]], the [[register]], the [[dimension]] of [[images]], [[conscious]] or [[un
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  First, he was concerned to distinguish [[sexual]] [[difference]] on the basis of ...acan's thinking on feminine sexuality is distinguished by two main phases: first, he was concerned to distinguish [[Sexual Difference|sexual difference]] on
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• Logic of Sexuation
  According to Freud, the first law of society was thus imposed by the sons on themselves as a result of th Women instead not only [[know]] there sis more to the [[world]] than the signifier, but they try, often with the gfreatest determination,
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...hidden [[structure]] which resembles that of language. Knowledge of the [[world]], of [[others]] and of self is determined by language. Language is the pre ...] and therefore of laws, language and organization. Lacan contends that at first the child does not merely desire contact with the mother and her care; it w
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...cribes the source of this [[complex]] in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was d The phallus is first and foremost a signifier and in Lacan's [[system]] a particularly privilege
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...y paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A furthe ...ut it was relatively underdeveloped. Lacan used the term, the real, in his first published papers in the 1930s, but in these early [[texts]] it was essentia
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• Politics
  ...ch denies the represive force of our subjection to the [[symbolic]] in the first [[place]]: "So the [[paradox]] is that 'liberal' [[subjects]] are in a way ...political [[agent]], however, it expresses a resolve to change hte way the world is, no matter at what personal [[code]].
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• Liberalism
  But this new [[world]] of freedom described by [[people]] like Ulrich Beck, who say everything i
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...ript="urn:my-script-blocks"><i>You also say that the elites in our Western world are losing their nerve. They want to throw out all old concepts like humani ...le simply say: 'What's the problem? Let's throw ourselves into the digital world, into the internet, or whatever….' They really miss what is going on here
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• The passion of the real
  ...be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First [[World]] War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst Jnger, in which he p
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