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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...utopian expectations which, among other things, enabled us to measure the failure of the really existing Socialism itself. What the anti-Communist dissidents ...f this necessity when he wrote, "It is a modern folly to alter a corrupt [[ethical]] system, its [[constitution]] and legislation, without changing the [[reli
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...situation occurs when a higher [[necessity]] compels me to betray the very ethical substance of my being.<br><br> ...l]] terms, the paradox of the miser is that he unites the two incompatible ethical tradition: the Aristotelian ethics of moderation and the Kantian ethics of
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...things here and there, etc.). And it is in these replacement of the big "[[ethical]]" founding crime with small corruption that resides the finesse of the fil ...s, this is all we can do today, in our dark era: to render [[visible]] the failure of all attempts at redemption, the obscene travesty of every gesture of rec
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...recise on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the “alienation” of social life.” Alienation means (also) tha ...neral, one can only believe in some God(s) to the detriment of others. The failure of all the efforts to unite religions proves that the only way to be religi
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature,
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...t not commit murder"). This is the central point of his [[Meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] [[theory]] that establishes Kant as an extreme [[moral objectivism|moral ...ould not possibly have [[knowledge]] of his own freedom, we cannot use our failure to find a proof for freedom as evidence for a [[lack]] of it. The observabl
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• Frankfurt School
  ...ommunist]] or [[Social-Democratic]] parties. Influenced especially by the failure of [[working]]-[[class]] revolutions in Western [[Europe]] after [[World Wa ...[ethics]] as the highest stage in the internal logic of the evolution of [[ethical]] systems, Habermas hints at the source of a new [[politics|political]] pra
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• Parallax View
  ....<ref>And, as René Girard pointed out, is the first full assertion of the ethical parallax not the Book of Job, in which the two perspective are confronted ( ...re is nothing "beyond," the "Beyond" is only the void of the impossibility/failure of its own representation - or, as Hegel put it at the end of the chapter o
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• The Pope's Failures
  ..., betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...“[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  "The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of [[ethical]] abnegations and professional priests; but [[inside]] that inhuman guard y ...and the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]] - no wonder the novel is a clear failure, contrived and ridiculously pretentious. To add insult to [[injury]], Walla
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...lute</i>, but something bothered me. Do I really have to kill my son to be ethical?" I love this [[total]] naïveté. Of course not! My point was to address t
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...mentalism]], then one is forced to conclude that the attack was not only a failure, but even strengthened the very [[cause]] it tried to fight. The Saddam Hus ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th
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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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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...around her - it is this predicament that imposes suicide as her ultimate [[ethical]] act: becoming aware of how he suffers on account of her permanent [[prese ...ct was a simple escape from the burden of [[life]], the second is a proper ethical act. In other [[words]], if the first Harey, before her suicide on Earth, w
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf ...ATO intervention in Yugoslavia is not simply the result of some particular failure of strategic reasoning, but depends on the fundamental [[inconsistency]] of
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  struggling with, the point of failure of the [[three]] consecutive drafts of <i>Weltalter</i>, was the our failure to comprehend God is what Hegel called a 'reflexive determination' of the
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong. ...at (what Knowledge misperceives as) marginal malfunctionings and points of failure are a [[structural]] [[necessity]]. With [[regard]] to the ancien regime, f
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...the inexistence of the big [[Other, the]] subject blames the Other for its failure and/or impotence, as if the Other is [[guilty]] for the fact that it doesn' ...of their co-existence without any guarantee of some meta-norm [[Kant]]'s [[ethical]] [[philosophy]] was already its exemplary case. In Coldness and [[Cruelty]
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...mage]] of the [[Samurai]] [[code]], fighting to [[death]], the absolute, [[ethical]] Japan. Then there is the [[leftist]] image, from Eisenschtein already: th ...ective in our late capitalist society means. Or let's take Lynch's biggest failure, 'Dune.' Did you notice the use of multiple inner monologues? Reality is so
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  biggest failure, <cite>Dune</cite>. Did you notice the use of multiple inner [[death]], the absolute, [[ethical]] Japan. Then there is the leftist image, from
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