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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...alysis began in 1963 when Louis [[Althusser]], the leading [[communist]] [[philosopher]] in [[France]], invited [[Jacques Lacan]] to hold his [[seminars]] at the ...ne is most useful as it places Lacan’s thought in a postwar social and [[political]] context.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...s="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">The problem with a post-political universe is that we have these two sides which are engaged in kind of morta ...ric moment when the last traces of working-class politics disappeared from political space? For many former leftists, this multiculturalism is a kind of ersatz
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  So, if the passion of the Real ends up with the pure semblance of the [[political]] theater, then, in an exact [[inversion]], the "[[postmodern]]" passion of ...ature inscribed into Islam "as such," but with the outcome of modern socio-political conditions.
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...d one copy of Pravda, censored of all news that would tell Lenin about the political struggles going on, with the justification that Comrade Lenin should take a ...tter result, when, cognitively, the ignorance of the majority remains. The political frustration of the majority is thus understandable: they are called to deci
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...e [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. ...omise and [[change]] slightly the form of your activity. So with regard to political struggles, the [[Freudian]] [[formula]], Where it was I shall come into bei
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...] for what Etienne [[Balibar]] called egaliberte. For that [[reason]], the political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in ...on the ambiguity of the term state-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the st
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...such (<i>ecce homo</i>). Democracy - in its true grandeur, not in its post-political logic of administration and compromise among multiple interests - partakes .... However, already the temporality of this relationship between the French political revolution and the German spiritual reformation is ambiguous: all three pos
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...ot in [[Kant]]: "synthetic," artificial, "unnatural." To evoke a common [[political]] [[experience]]: all great unifiers started with a divisive gesture - [[de ...t. He wishes to cleanse the edifice, but not to destroy it. But the evil philosopher is not trying to alter things, but to annihilate them.<ref>[[Chesterton]],
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  So what can a [[philosopher]] do here? One should bear in [[mind]] that the philosopher's task is not to propose solutions, but to reformulate the problem itself, ...limation]] at its most elementary: the all-encompassing nature of the post-political [[Concrete]] [[Universality]] which accounts for everybody at the level of
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  <i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £2 ...] their passionate attachment to global change, invest their [[excess]] of political [[energy]] in an abstract and excessively rigid moralising stance.</p><p>At
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• Surrealism
  ...ism, it has always remained distinct. In 1971 the surrealist painter and [[philosopher]] René Passeron, with his research team at the C.N.R.S., founded<i>Études [[political]] and [[external]], the other exploring the deepest recesses of the [[human
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ...l 28]] [[1902]] - [[1968]]) was a [[Marxist]] and [[Hegelian]] [[political philosopher]], who had a substantial impact on intellectual [[life]] in [[France]] in t ...[Berlin]] and [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]]. Early influences included the [[philosopher]] [[Martin Heidegger]] and the historian of [[science]] [[Alexandre Koyré]
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• The Purloined Letter
  ...f he did not, he probably wouldn’t have [[left]] the hotel alive! As a [[political]] supporter of the Queen, he hopes that when D- produces the unopened lette ...ry was used by the [[French]] [[psychologist]] [[Jacques Lacan]] and the [[philosopher]] [[Jacques Derrida]] to [[present]] opposing [[structuralism | structurali
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• Biography of Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek]] is a Slovenian [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cultural]] critic. The Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj zizek|Slavoj ZiZek]] has gained something of a cult following for
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• Theodor Adorno
  ...ptember 11]], 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a [[German]] [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]], musicologist and composer. He was a member of the [[Frankfurt School]] a ...lavoj]]. [[The Ticklish Subject|The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]. [[London]]: Verso, 1999.
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...ally revolutionize our lives. Didn’t [[Marx]] say that all the world’s political upheavals paled in comparison with the invention of the steam engine when i Etienne [[Balibar]], the French [[Marxist]] [[philosopher]], distinguishes the two opposite but complementary forms of excessive viol
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...r]],” it is not only the terrorists but the CTU agents who become what [[philosopher]] [[Giorgio Agamben]] calls <i>[[homini sacer]]</i> — those who can be ki ...d. It is a sad indication of the deep [[change]] in our [[ethical]] and [[political]] standards.
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  Although [[Timothy Garton Ash]] is my [[political]] opponent, I’ve always admired his wealth of precise observations and fo ...o save their legacy from vulgar [[Americanization]]); the English focus on political dilemmas (Should they join the European Monetary Union?); the Germans worry
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...onstrued as oppressive. Incidentally, the only way to react to excessive [[political]] correctness, I claim, is propagating dirty [[jokes]].<br><br> ...at's my measure that we truly broke the [[barrier]]? Ok, at one level it's political correctness, but it's absolutely clear that if you play this game, only pol
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...ntire twentieth century, I see a counter-tendency, for which my [[good]] [[philosopher]] friend [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] invented a nice [[name]]: 'La [[passion]] du ...aradoxes, which offer no immediate way out. In this sense, subjectivity is political.
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