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...been a key influence on Žižek in his attempt to [[think]] a political [[project]] that constitutes an “alternative to [[global]] [[capitalism]] and its [ ...mber of levels. First, it allows a clear [[distinction]] between radical [[emancipatory politics]] and the predominant status quo politics: whereas the former is a

...administration of the social matters. This was for Lenin no theoretical [[project]] for some distant future — in October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can a ...rld-wide conditions, the Leninist gesture of reinventing the revolutionary project in the conditions of [[imperialism]] and colonialism, more precisely: after

...f [[moralistic]] victimization it is sufficient to compare it to the great emancipatory movements based on the universalist moral appeal epitomized by the names Ga ...[capitalist]] system is no longer even imaginable as a serious political [[project]], but nonetheless unable to [[renounce]] their attachment to the prospect

...lex]] than the [[image]] of [[Stalin]] ruthlessly realizing his demoniac [[project]] of [[total]] domination: the great purges are put in their context, rende ...he holocaust. Third, it serves to cast a shadow on every radical political project, i.e. to reinforce the Denkverbot against the radical political [[imaginati

...he progressive movement is [[being]] compelled to reinvent its [[whole]] [[project]]. What tends to be forgotten, however, is that a similar experience gave [ ...rs — arises directly from the ashes of 1914. It wasn't a [[theoretical]] project for some distant [[future]]: in October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can at

...administration of the social matters. This was for Lenin no theoretical [[project]] for some distant [[future]]. In October 1917, Lenin claimed that "we can ...orldwide conditions, the Leninist gesture of reinventing the revolutionary project in the conditions of [[imperialism]] and colonialism. Or, more precisely, s

...itutionalizing the incessant short circuit of freedom and cruelty puts the project of modernity to its most extreme trial. /.../ the revolution itself inflict ...ionary Terror is not the rather obvious insight into how the revolutionary project involved the unilateral direct assertion of abstract Universal Reason, and

...it remained an unfinished [[project]], so our task should be to bring this project to completion; (2) the one associated with [[Adorno]]'s and [[Horkheimer]]' ...ounts to the implicit [[prohibition]] of elaborating a positive collective project of socio-political transformation.

...uld rather directly display the [[self]]-refuting [[nature]] of Gibson's [[project]]. That is to say, let us imagine the film without subtitles shown in a lar ...ristian "radical abolitionist" who came closest to introducing the radical emancipatory-egalitarian logic into the US political landscape:

...ican [[society]] itself (i.e., the disciplining of whatever remains of its emancipatory potentials)? We should therefore be very careful not to fight false battles ...-thematic of (and confrontation with) "terrorism" as (part of) a POLITICAL PROJECT, which, of course, in no way implies the agreement with it. It is worth to

...o recognise the [[tragedy]] of the [[October Revolution]]: both its unique emancipatory potential and the [[historical necessity]] of its [[Stalinist]] outcome. W ...at claimed to focus on the conditions of the failure of the [[emancipatory project]] abstain from analysing the nightmare of ‘[[actually existing socialism]

...istic]] depoliticisation is the retreat of the Marxist historico-political project. A couple of decades ago, people were still discussing the political [[futu

...ural evolution. The simultaneously empirical and transcendental nature of emancipatory knowledge becomes the foundation stone of critical theory. ...edu/faculty/kellner/illumina%20Folder/ Illuminations - The Critical Theory Project]

...of only preventing suffering implicitly prohibited a positive collective [[project]] for social and political transformation. ...the “[[symbolic class]]” inherently [[split]], enabling us to make an emancipatory wager on a coalition between the slum dwellers and the “progressives” o

...answer to this is simply that we should return to our old welfare state [[project]], but that there are still tough questions to be asked.<br><br> ...le doing this, but very few of them. People who are committed to a certain project. Really, it's tragic.<br><br>

...ican [[society]] itself (i.e., the disciplining of whatever remains of its emancipatory potentials)? We should therefore be very careful not to fight false battles ...-thematic of (and confrontation with) "terrorism" as (part of) a POLITICAL PROJECT, which, of course, in no way implies the agreement with it. It is worth to

...] parallel. Just as Lenin was forced to reformulate the entire socialist [[project]], we are in a similar situation. What Lenin did, we should do today, at an ...it's like to be a black lesbian mother, and so on. Now this may sound very emancipatory. But the moment we accept this logic, we enter a kind of apartheid. In a si

...just to do it. There are very few people who are committed to a certain [[project]]. ...s that Adorno and Horkheimer's [[formal]] logic was correct. The [[whole]] project in The Dialectic of Enlightenment is "let's paint the ultimate outcome of t

...y has the [[idea]] of communism been raised to the level of an authentic [[project]] in his [[political]] [[philosophy]]. Deemed a dissident in ex-Yugoslavia, ...and it is here that we find the ground upon which [[Emancipatory politics|emancipatory]] struggles must be fought (and won).

The [[French]] and [[Dutch]] [[NO]] to the [[project]] of [[Europe]]an [[constitution]] was a clear-cut [[case]] of what in the ...er]] presupposed to be able to meet it. Does the proper [[revolution]]ary/emancipatory [[political act]] not move beyond this horizon of demands? The [[revolutio

...[return]] of the [[repressed]]," the "[[irrationality]]" inherent to the [[project]] of a totally organized "administered [[society]]." This means the two lev ...ly, the [[analyst's discourse]] stands for the emergence of revolution-ary-emancipatory subjectivity that resolves the [[split]] of university and [[hysteria]]. In

...list dialectics adds its proviso: “… with the exception of the radical-emancipatory ([[Communist]]) politics of truth.” ...r Islamofascism” is sustained by the obliteration of the radical secular emancipatory politics. So one should be clear here in rejecting the dangerous motto “t

...perceive terror as the truth - the ultimate consequence - of the humanist project itself, of its hubris. ...oblem here is not terror as such - our task today is precisely to reinvent emancipatory terror. The problem lies elsewhere: the egalitarian political "extremism" o

...ng its main form today (the anti-globalization movement), and defining the emancipatory struggle in strictly political terms, as the struggle against (liberal) dem ...that, at the origins of the regime, there was an "authentic" revolutionary project - incessant purges were necessary not only to erase the traces of the regim

...ovides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics. ...ervention, addressing the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and its ideological supplement, liberal-demo

...spect of the Communiust past – in its [[good]] and bad aspects, from the emancipatory [[dream]] to the Stalinist terror - is erased, replaced by everyday [[objec ...ely a [[contingent]] deviation, as well as the notion that the Communist [[project]] is, in its very core, totalitarian. In the [[third]] volume of his suprem

...he horizon, but that these new dangers also open up new spaces for radical emancipatory politics. Eleven distinguished thinkers take these perils as a challenge to

...ervention, addressing the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and its ideological supplement, liberal-demo

...aracter was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of an emancipatory project aimed against all kinds of naturalisms and identitarian politics. Neolibera

...aracter was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of an emancipatory project aimed against all kinds of naturalisms and identitarian politics. Neolibera

...for the subsequent enlargements of later history"<u>23</u> and for a new project of reconciliation? Such a move is nonetheless illegitimate: it does not tak ...va takes flight only at dusk; and also why the twentieth-century communist project was utopian precisely insofar as it was not radical enough―that is, insof