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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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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...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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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...ts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his [[real]] conditions of [[life]], and his relations w ...of this self-engendering monster that pursues its path disregarding any [[human]] or environmental concern is an [[ideological]] abstraction, and that one
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...” effectively WAS an attempt to reassert a “Socialism with a [[human]] face,” i.e. to reinscribe the [[process]] of industrialization within the cons ...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
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ling the trenches of the first world war, Ernst Jünger celebrated face-to-face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity res ...lts from the predominance of material production and [[technology]] over [[human]] relations and [[culture]]. What if the exact opposite is the case? What i
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...rmly rooted in the democratic political [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights. Therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the experien ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophy, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, growing [[violence]] not on
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...er from the early 1990s dozens of Western Leftists who proudly threw in my face how for them, [[Yugoslavia]] still [[exists]], and reproached me for betray ...orward in humanity's slow march toward [[civilization]]." However, while [[human rights]] groups have hailed the court's creation as the biggest milestone f
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...s neither from his own viewpoint, nor from the viewpoint of others, but to face the reality that is exposed through difference (parallax)." <a name="8"></a ...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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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...ving one and a destructive one - we are talking [[about]] one and the same face. But, yet again, this does not mean that "the difference is only in us, not ...d]] - what is unthinkable within this space is Heidegger's notion of the [[human]] being as <i>Da-[[Sein]]</i>, as the "being-there" of the Being itself, as
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• Move the Underground!
  ...ugs and then compelled to perform an [[aggressive]] gesture ("Spit into my face, boy!"; "Say I am a shit!"...), which is supposed to justify the ensuing be ...to no symbolic Law, the [[total]] [[Master]] who dares to confront face to face [[the Real]] of terrifying <i>[[jouissance]]</i> - is presented not as a [[
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• Opera
  <font face="BOOKMAN" size="3">Perhaps the most [[touching]] [[scene]] of the entire <i <font face="BOOKMAN" size="3"><i>So wenig achtest du ewige Wonne?<br>
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ..../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[Hague]]: ...not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...im]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension]].</font></p><p><font face="courier" size="-1"> <font face="courier" size="-1">My first [[thesis]] is that this unique dimension is no
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...it]] the scope of [[knowledge]] of Christ's [[mind]] to that of a common [[human]] [[consciousness]], so that Christ effectively [[thought]] he was dying ab ...erhaps the first exemplary [[case]] of the critique of [[ideology]] in the human [[history]], laying bare the basic discursive strategies of legitimizing su
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e simply have much higher standards of what constitutes the violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in ...]] from the early 1990s dozens of Western Leftists who proudly threw in my face how, for them, [[Yugoslavia]] still [[exists]], and reproached me for betra
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...glish]], a wealthy and popular car dealership owner, throws a drink in the face of Harry Reilly, the richest man in town. Because of this, he becomes embro ...the [[idea]], developed most systematically by [[Donald Davidson]], that [[human]] [[acts]] are rationally-intentional, accountable in the [[terms]] of beli
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...no one in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] who advocated ‘[[Nazism]] with a [[human face]]’. Herein lies the flaw (and the bias) of all attempts, such as that of
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• Knee-Deep
  ...[[moralistic]] 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 co ...t the [[dialectical]] [[totality]] of the situation.' The singularity of [[human]] [[suffering]] may reach a level at which the easy reference to totality t
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...y brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical stance has bec
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