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...March 1949) is a [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] [[sociologist]], [[postmodern]] [[philosopher]], and [[Lacan]]ian [[cultural critic]]. *[[The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology]]. [[Eric Santner]], Keith Reinhard and SZ. Chicago: [[University]

|'''[[Political]] party''' ...ar credits. This led him to a final split with the [[Second International (political)|Second International]], which was composed of these parties. Lenin adopted

...portant insights into contemporary [[ideological]] [[processes]] – the [[political]] implications and consequences of which reach well beyond the merely sexua ...there to be a [[content]] of belief. Th e seventeenth-century [[French]] [[philosopher]] Blaise [[Pascal]] described the [[performative]] element of belief in rel

...n]] 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly [[chair]] of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École Normale Supérieure] Badiou was trained formally as a [[philosopher]] as a student at the ENS from 1956 to 1961, a period during which he took

...sy conference devoted to the work of Heidegger, Lacan invites the German [[philosopher]] and his wife to spend a few days in his country house at Guitrancourt. ...personal commitment to [[political]] action, although he was intrigued by political issues. This sceptical attitude brings to [[mind]] Freud’s scepticism ill

...a difference of [[subjects]]. Different authors have called themselves "[[philosopher]] of language" or "semiotician". This difference does ''not'' match the [[s ...but this narrow focus can inhibit a more general study of the social and [[political]] forces shaping how different media are used and their [[dynamic]] status

...aspect of the scientific method, he greatly admired [[Theodor Lipps]], a [[philosopher]] and main supporter of the ideas of the subconscious and [[empathy]].<ref> ...ame sense as Lacan: “Not ‘I am not a philosopher’, but ‘I am a not-philosopher’, that is, I stand for the excessive core of philosophy itself, for what

'''Giorgio [[Agamben]]''' ([[born]] [[1942]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]] who teaches at the [[University]] of [[Verona]]. He also holds a professo ...mary concerns, though without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where

...erned with "man in the [[singular]]." She described herself instead as a [[political]] theorist because her [[work]] centers on the fact that "men, not Man, liv ...hought]] of Saint [[Augustine]], under the direction of the existentialist philosopher-[[psychologist]] [[Karl Jaspers]].

...er]] and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Depar Judith Butler is an American philosopher and political theorist well known for her early [[role]] in shaping the field of [[queer

...the beginning of the twenty-first, countless philosophical, scientific, [[political]], [[religious]] and other changes directly relevant to “The Earliest [[S ...'' at the start of 1999’s ''[[The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]'') – Žižek strives to extract from Dennett’s stance resour

The term '''''deconstruction''''' was coined by [[French]] [[philosopher]] [[Jacques Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities ...hical]] values. As a rule, deconstruction is ridiculed by members of the [[political]] [[right]] of just [[about]] any stripe. Its reception on the [[left]] is

'''Gilles Deleuze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. The [[political]] turn taken by Deleuze allegedly resulted from him being “[[Félix Guatt

...) was an [[Algeria]]n-[[born]] [[France|French]] [[literary critic]] and [[philosopher]] of [[Jew]]ish descent, most often referenced as the founder of "[[deconst ...voj]]. ''[[The Ticklish Subject|The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]''. [[London]]: Verso, 1999. pp. 158-9

...Science]], and is currently Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political [[Economy]] and Director of the International [[Development]] Program at th

...logy, etc. The F.G.E.R.I. came to [[represent]] aspects of the multiple [[political]] and [[cultural]] engagements of Félix Guattari: the Group for Young His ...work as director of the experimental La Borde clinic and collaborator of [[philosopher]] Gilles Deleuze. ''Chaosophy'' is a groundbreaking introduction to Guattar

June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf) is a [[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theo

...]], is generally recognized as the first [[existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. He bridged the gap that existed between [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|H ...h;1896), a prominent civil servant (not to be confused with the [[German]] philosopher [[Friedrich Schlegel|Friedrich von Schlegel]], 1772-1829). For the most pa

...order]] of [[power]], the order of law and the order of [[knowledge]]" ("[[Philosopher]]?", 1985). [[Category:Political theory|Lefort, Claude]]

...'' (April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungary|Hungarian [[Marxist]] [[philosopher]] and [[literary critic]] in the [[tradition]] of [[Western Marxism]]. He In addition to his standing as a Marxist [[political]] thinker, Lukács was an influential [[literary critic]] of the twentieth

...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.

...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

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.

...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

...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

...] 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

...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

...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]],

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

<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

...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

...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]

...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

[[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

...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.

...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

...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.

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

...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

...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.

...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

...ime to ask what the meaning of this war war. What were its ideological and political consequences?<br> ...omen are no longer political subjects, but helpless victims, robbed of all political identity and reduced to their naked suffering. In my opinion, this idealist

...] 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

...what the [[meaning]] of this war war. What were its [[ideological]] and [[political]] consequences?<br> ...no longer political [[subjects]], but [[helpless]] victims, robbed of all political [[identity]] and reduced to their naked [[suffering]]. In my opinion, this

...hcock]] and Lynch to [[horror]] stories and [[science]] [[fiction]]. The [[philosopher]] from [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] became popular with his book ENJOY YOUR Of course there is also a [[political]] axis to this: My answer to some popularised version of [[Foucault]] or [[

...[[marriage]] of the analyst, of a specific analyst, and his affairs and [[political]] obsessions. That was enough. Then a word on the [[desire of the analyst]] ...nday woodcutter, just as he treats himself to the philological joys of a [[philosopher]], that is, of a Sunday philologist.) (Prévert, who abounds in slyness, ri

For They [[Know]] Not What They Do: [[Enjoyment]] as a [[Political]] Factor, New York: Verso, 1991. ...]' philosophy. Here he sets out the [[case]] that Lacan is the [[third]] [[philosopher]] to accomplish this gesture after [[Plato]] and Kant, both of whom also tr

* [[Enjoy your Žižek|Enjoy your Žižek: An excitable Slovenian philosopher examines the obscene practices of everyday life, including his own]]. Lingu * [[Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political|Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with SZ]]. Christopher Hanlon, New [[Literary]] [[History]],

...izek opens up new possibilities of thought beyond the terms of the current political debates on globalization, democratization, war on terror. Once again, Zizek

...inally it does all this with the piquancy of his direct involvement in the political upheavals in Slovenia when it was [[forced]] to opt out of Serbian controll ...an]] of sorts who draws devoted crowds wherever he speaks, and a serious [[philosopher]] with an arsenal of genuinely funny [[jokes]] and tabloid stories which he

An excitable Slovenian [[philosopher]] examines the [[obscene]] practices of everyday [[life]]<br> ...bruptly broken, however, by the sudden, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the Bri

...he is Zizek. For anyone who has tired of the dumbing down of mainstream [[political]] [[discourse]] in the West, who finds it hard to believe that the bone-dry ...he deal for Zizek's readers. It's one [[thing]] to illuminate contemporary political concerns with the [[help]] of dense [[philosophical]] points; it's another

Others have raised suspicions about the political implications of the ambiguous political profile--<i>marxisant</i> cultural critic on

...desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...es a certain amount of paranoia'. This characterisation neatly disposes of political argument through pathologising the writer (a risk we will also be taking in

...itical Factor</i>. This densely theoretical text - as if to underscore its political relevance - was originally delivered as a series of two-part lectures over ...ntasy and turn it into a tool for ideological analysis. The French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser was perhaps the first to show that fantasy is not to be und

...as expelled from the International Psychological Association in 1934 for [[political]] militancy. German newspapers started attacking him as a womanizer, a comm ...of Open Hand". [[Frank Zappa]] was also influenced by Reich's work. The [[philosopher]] and science [[fiction]] author [[Robert Anton Wilson]] wrote a play, ''[[

...May 20]], [[2005]], [[Chatenay Malabry]]) was a [[French people|French]] [[philosopher]] best known for combining [[phenomenology|phenomenological]] description ...s latest [[writing]] engaged the [[thought]] of the American [[political]] philosopher [[John Rawls]].

...[German]]-American [[psychology|psychologist]] and humanistic [[philosophy|philosopher]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of c ...[[1941]], Fromm's writings were notable as much for their [[social]] and [[political]] commentary as for their [[philosophical]] and [[psychological]] underpinn

...t if God doesn't [[exist]], then everything is permitted. The [[French]] [[philosopher]] Andre Glucksmann even applied Dostoyevsky's critique of godless nihilism ...build a mosque? While conservatives opposed the mosque for [[cultural]], [[political]] and even architectural reasons, the [[liberal]] weekly journal Mladina wa

...lly became a favorite Soviet tactic against [[dissidents]]: anyone whose [[political]] views were different from theirs was insane. For these Jewish intellectua ...wever, already the [[temporality]] of this relationship between the French political revolution and the German spiritual reformation is ambiguous. Three possibl

...que of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...e of Ideology (Duke, 1993); The [[Ticklish Subject]]: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Verso, 1999); [[The Fragile Absolute]]: Or Why the [[Christian]]

...ations between production and the ideological superstructure to their full political rights, has none the less failed to give birth to an ^esperanto in which th These considerations, important as their existence is for the philosopher, turn us away from the locus in which language questions us as to its very

...of [[emotion]]al cleansing first defined by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]] [[Aristotle]]. ...]], melodrama and most [[other]] dramatic forms. Deliberate attempts, on [[political]] or aesthetic bases, to subvert the [[structure]] of catharsis in theatre

...(September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was an American [[political]] [[philosopher]] of [[German]]-[[Jewish]] extraction, who specialized in the revitalizatio

...ous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western [[political]] [[philosophy]]. ...y]], geometry, [[ethics]], general philosophy and what would now be called political [[science]]. Additionally, Hobbes's account of [[human]] [[nature]] as [[se

...'(Leggett) <ref>The reference is to George Leggett, ''The Cheka: Lenin's [[Political]] Police'', Oxford: Oxford University Press 1981. </ref> was unquestionable ...ountry," the result of a much more "pragmatic" and improvisatory series of political and [[economic]] decisions, fully aware of its own limitations. (Lenin's de

...- if anyone - will translate it into a [[coherency|coherent]] alternate [[political]] [[vision]]? ...in the guise of [[civil society]] initiatives, to engage them more in a [[political]] [[process]]. However, when people awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumb

...lly became a favorite Soviet tactic against [[dissidents]]: anyone whose [[political]] views were different from theirs was insane. For these Jewish intellectua .... However, already the temporality of this relationship between the French political revolution and the German spiritual reformation is ambiguous. Three possibl

...crucial thread throughout because it lies at the heart not only of liberal political economy, psychiatry and psychopathology, and the various discourses of reco ...'The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of Liberalism'' (2018), ''Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor'' (2012), ''Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis

[[René Descartes]] (1596-1650), the [[French]] [[philosopher]], mathematician and soldier who is often referred to as the [[Father]] of ...ng the content of a materialism that is later taken up by Marx, the German philosopher Friedrich [[Nietzsche]] (1844-1900) and Freud. It is because Žižek reads

...] Roman [[Jakobson]], the socioethnologist Claude Lévi-[[Strauss]], the [[philosopher]] and archeologist of [[knowledge]] Michel [[Foucault]], the reinterpreter ...[[instance]], a social structure is organized into series: [[economic]], [[political]], juridical, etc. An operative structure has at least two series; for inst

...[[1968]], the [[French]] intelligentsia greeted this work by a renowned [[philosopher]] and an antiestablishment [[psychoanalyst]] as a revolutionary brick throu ...hing]] else." Schizoanalysis, with its [[schizophrenic]] [[process]], a "[[political]] and social psychoanalysis" proposes to "undo the expressive oedipal uncon

An Austrian [[philosopher]] and [[psychoanalyst]], Siegfried Bernfeld was [[born]] March 7, 1892, in ...issues. A lucid and passionate [[left]]-wing Zionist, he was [[active]] in political struggles while he was a university student.

'''[[w:Alain Badiou| Alain Badiou]]''' ([[born]] 1937) is a [[French]] [[philosopher]]. ...as no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of [[political]] situations, of their causes and consequences.

...minists influenced by [[deconstruction]], and Continental critics of the [[political]] [[Left]]. Some tended to combine Lacan’s insights with [[other]] perspe ...e, Žižek builds a [[case]] for considering Lacan as a [[transcendental]] philosopher on the basis that Lacan’s [[psychoanalytic theory]] offers a sort of crit

...alist]] practice. They argued that every film must be [[interpreted]] as [[political]] insofar as it is determined by the [[ideology]] that produced it and inde ...ychoanalysis; and part 3, which he refers to as "field theories," includes political/ideological models, the critique of representation, feminism, psychoanalysi

This is Lacan's most overtly [[political]] seminar; we must remember that the students had only recently participate ...discourse of the master synonymous with the discourse of philosophy. The [[philosopher]], like the master, seeks a [[totality]] of illusory knowledge.

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...e is here [[Plato]] – not the caricaturized Plato, the anti-democratic [[philosopher]] of the aristocratic reaction to Athenian [[democracy]], but the Plato who ...This brings us to the second supplement: there is an even more narrow [[political]] version of the democratic-materialist axiom: “All that takes [[place]]

...f Psychoanalysis] -- European network of [[analysts]] concerned with the [[political]] status of psychoanalysis. Organises the PIPOL Congress. ...yn.org/ Zamyn] -- Zamyn provides interdisciplinary [[analyses]] of the geo-political dynamics between corporate globalisation and [[cultural]] practice in an in

Mr. Mohammed has become what the Italian [[political]] [[philosopher]] Giorgio [[Agamben]] calls “homo sacer”: a creature legally [[dead]] w

...-un-donald-trump-crazy-world-status-quo-a8240756.html As Putin has proven, political madness is the new status quo] ...atwave-global-warming-climate-change-philosopher-a8475721.html Why being a philosopher in the heatwave is so particularly unbearable]

'''In this dazzling new series, [[philosopher]] and [[cultural]] critic Slavoj [[Zizek]] interrogates key writings on [[r ...lution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for [[political]] [[violence]] ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a [[world]]

...historiographic reception always closely mirrored the twists and turns of political struggles. The identifying mark of all kinds of conservatives is its flat r ..., so that the commonly accepted motto is that the Left, if it is to regain political efficiency, should thoroughly reinvent itself, finally abandoning the so-ca

Fighting [[words]] indeed, care of Slovenian [[philosopher]] Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose latest [[intellectual]] Molotov cocktail, ''''The For Zizek, the cultural [[project]] is indivisible from a wider [[political]] involvement, however amusingly delivered. He expresses genuine concern ab

* "[[The Philosopher's Moan]]." ''The Guardian''. 4 May 2007. Stephen Moss. <http://film.gua ...subject]] of a forthcoming book). This time I know who he is - Slovenian [[philosopher]], cineaste, professional contrarian. He is feted as an "academic rock star

...s is why, when confronted with [[singular]] catastrophic prospects (say, a political group which intends to attack its enemy with nuclear or [[biological]] weap ...in other countries, they mostly persist in apolitical inertia. It was this political mobilization of the slum dwellers which saved him against the US-sponsored

...directly the goal of political action - in politics, one opposes concrete political agents and their actions, not an anonymous "system." However, if one may ap ...monumental Second World War, Winston Churchill ponders on the enigma of a political decision: after the specialists (economic and military analysts, psychologi

...h, through the exertion of itrs benevolent [[power]], educates people to [[political]] maturity. And, as expected, Kant does not fail to mention the Mandevillea This step is the properly "Hegelian" one – which is why Hegel, the [[philosopher]] who made the most radical attempt to THINK TOGETHER the abyss of madness

...rbitrary terror: God is presented almost as Evil personified, as a kind of political informer, a man who "comes around" and provokes consternation by "taking na ...er that the philosopher of finitude par excellence, Heidegger, is also the philosopher who utterly lacks any sense of humor. Significantly, the ONLY joke – or,

...a displacement of cathectic energy which is now invested in anti-European political and ideological discourses"(222).<br> ..."What is needed, in other words, is an enjoyable democratic ethics of the political."(269) The key question here is, of course, WHAT KIND OF enjoyment:

[[Philosopher]], [[cultural]] critic, and [[agent]] provocateur [[Slavoj Žižek]] constr ...crimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of [[economic]] and [[political]] systems)--and often one [[form]] of violence blunts our ability to see th

In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who represents the critical-materialist stance against reli ...Christ concerns nothing less than the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first tim

...dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and [[cultural]] critic. He has published over thirty books, including [[Lo

The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests. ...and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragment

...nian [[philosopher]] [[Slavoj Žižek]] discuss artistic [[subversion]], [[political]] activism, and the [[future]] of [[democracy]] via the [[ideas]] of [[Hege

...[[political]] challenges of the modern [[world]]. This is the burden of [[philosopher]] Slavoj Žižek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new [[work] ...pre-Kantian realism, Žižek offers a series of excursions into today’s political, artistic, and [[ideological]] landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg’s [[musi

The maverick [[philosopher]] returns to explore today's idealogical, [[political]] and [[economic]] battles, and asks whether radical [[change]] is possible

...trained as a [[Lacanian]]. He is at the forefront of [[philosophical]], [[political]] and [[cultural]] debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a

* 2014, ''[[Ahmed the Philosopher]]'' * 2014, ''[[Badiou and the Political Condition]]''

...ker of becoming he took himself to be; on the contrary, he is an ascetic [[philosopher]] of [[Being]] and Oneness. Deleuze’s [[self]]-declared anti-Platonism fa ...ar the end of Deleuze’s [[life]], when the two put aside long-standing [[political]] and philosophical differences to [[exchange]] [[ideas]] [[about]] similar

...]] as a revival of [[dialectical]] [[materialism]], and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of [[theory]]: to define a [[conceptual]] [[s

Between 1965 and [[1968]], the celebrated [[French]] [[philosopher]] [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] hosted a televised series in which he interviewed so ...osophy]] in the 1960s, setting the [[scene]] for the very [[public]] and [[political]] context of philosophy in the period immediately preceding the events of M

For [[Alain]] [[Badiou]], [[films]] [[think]], and it is the task of the [[philosopher]] to transcribe that [[thinking]]. What is the [[subject]] to which the [[f ...non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the [[social]] and [[political]] art ''par excellence'', the best indicator of our [[civilization]], in t

...eatises to math theory—is probably the world’s best-known [[living]] [[philosopher]]. Featuring the brilliantly idiosyncratic illustrations of Piero, this inc

...‘''The Communist Hypothesis''’, first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellect ...explaining his political philosophy, Badiou also reflects on current socio-political developments such as the turmoil in the Middle East and the situation in Ch

'''René Descartes''' (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French [[philosopher]], mathematician, and [[scientist]]. A native of the Kingdom of [[France] ...]] [[ontology]] that haunts ''[[The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology|The Ticklish Subject]]''.

...est of [[Europe]] and the US, while developing and propagating a communist political [[vision]] in its international politics. ...]) and immediately after it, not only imprisonments but also executions of political opponents were massive.

...[[political]] challenges of the modern [[world]]. This is the burden of [[philosopher]] [[Slavoj Žižek]]'s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new [[wor ...e, pre-Kantian realism, Žižek offers a series of excursions into today's political, artistic, and [[ideological]] landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg's [[music]

For They [[Know]] Not What They Do: [[Enjoyment]] as a [[Political]] Factor - Slavoj [[Zizek]] | &quot;[[For They Know Not What They Do]]: Enjoyment as a Political Factor&quot;

...st articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian [[philosopher]] Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe [[Christianity]], [[Islam]] ...&quot; (4) &quot;[[Animal]] [[Gaze]],&quot; (5) &quot;For the Theologico-[[Political]] Suspension of the [[Ethical]],&quot; (by Gunjevic) (1) &quot;Mistagogy of

For They [[Know]] Not What They Do: [[Enjoyment]] as a [[Political]] Factor (Radical Thinkers) - Slavoj [[Zizek]] | &quot;[[For They Know Not What They Do]]: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers)&quot;

&lt;b&gt;Probably the most famous [[living]] [[philosopher]], [[Slavoj Žižek]] explores the [[meaning]] of events in this short and An event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary [[life]], a radical [[political]] rupture, a transformation of [[reality]], a [[religious]] [[belief]], the

&lt;b&gt;Probably the most famous [[living]] [[philosopher]], [[Slavoj Žižek]] explores the [[meaning]] of events in this short and An event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary [[life]], a radical [[political]] rupture, a transformation of [[reality]], a [[religious]] [[belief]], the

Slovenian [[philosopher]] Miran Bozovic's ''An Utterly Dark Spot&lt;/i&gt; examines the elusive sta ...] studies, [[semiotics]], [[theology]], the history of [[religion]], and [[political]] philosophy as well.<br />

...dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking

...traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes—all to prov

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.../books/slavoj-zizek/theology-and-the-political/index.html Theology and the Political: The New Debate [sic5]]<br /> 2006, [../../../text/books/slavoj-zizek/lacan

...pre-Kantian realism, Žižek offers a series of excursions into today’s political, artistic, and [[ideological]] landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg’s [[musi

...sopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacan

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...world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke.

...or flawed, including liberalism, capitalism, the politics of religion, and political decisionism. A final section assesses Žižek and politics today. Each chap

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...mine important philosophical figures and developments in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. ...and Philosophical Reflection, ''Robert R. Williams''<br /> 6. Schelling: Philosopher of Tragic Dissonance, ''Joseph P. Lawrence''<br /> 7. Schopenhauer on Empi

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...s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for t

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For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives ex ...t and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art ''par excellence'', the best indicator of our civilization, in the way

...inker of becoming he took himself to be; on the contrary, he is an ascetic philosopher of Being and Oneness. Deleuze’s self-declared anti-Platonism fails—and ...uze near the end of Deleuze’s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in t

...cal treatises to math theory—is probably the world’s best-known living philosopher. Featuring the brilliantly idiosyncratic illustrations of Piero, this incis

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...‘''The Communist Hypothesis''’], first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellect ...explaining his political philosophy, Badiou also reflects on current socio-political developments such as the turmoil in the Middle East and the situation in Ch

...t the same time, represents something outside the system. The progressive political challenge now is to create something new that offers people a real choice,

In this major study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s fou ...Fukuyama’s “end of history,” as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social, which is here extrapolated to our own time.

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'''Giorgio Agamben''' is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages.

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...on of social structures, and a materialist approach to the ontological and political nature of the human animal are crucial concerns in all strands of his curre

...opher John Lewis. In it he for the first time discusses the problem of the political causes of Stalinism, which he argues should be seen as the consequence of a The political thought of the ‘new’ Althusser is presented to English readers in a spe

...er’s provocative and, often, controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher. ...to give it form and focus. He calls all thinking people to, ‘Remember: a philosopher is a man who fights in theory, and when he understands the reasons for this

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...n of the question, but on the contrary to help us work our way back to its political dimension. '''Alenka Zupančič''' is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist. She works as research advisor at the Institute of Phil

...exploration of the various facets of creativity: cultural, philosophical, political and artistic. Featuring world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic

...the Writer of Political Abstraction ~ or ~ What Can Beckett Tell Us about Political Correctness and the Alt-Right?’ by Slavoj Žižek | 24. October 2018 | Vi ...voj Žižek visits Seton Hall University to deliver a lecture on ideology, political abstraction, and Samuel Beckett. Introduced by Russell Sbriglia, author of

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After much anticipation, renowned Slovenian Professor and philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Clinical Psychologist and Best Selling author Jordan B. ...niversity of London.He works in subjects including continental philosophy, political theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelian

...t Paul, on personal conviction. At the heart of the Middle Ages, then, the philosopher finds two large-scale intellectual operations: a textual restitution and a ..., etc.) resulted from this willed proximity between a shared conviction (a political conviction) and the inscription within a historically constituted artistic

...the word to function within the frame of an authoritarian opinion. For the philosopher everything consensual becomes suspicious. ...e the October Revolution. In fact, the critique addressed to Lenin – his political postulate viewed as nondemocratic – is original. However it's still inter

...ities of this sort (Working Class, Party, Socialist Camp …) for the real political processes of which Lenin had been the foremost thinker, and which Mao in tu ...the State has always been the alpha and omega of the fascist vision of the political – as a State based on the supposed existence of great closed collectives

...t figure of the priest. In ''The Antichrist'', Nietzsche declares that the philosopher is "the greatest of all criminals." We should take this declaration serious Nietzsche is not a philosopher, he is an anti-philosopher. This expression has a precise meaning: Nietzsche opposes, to the speculati

...the madness of philosophy, of its crazy paranoid system-building (cf. the "philosopher as madman" motif in the late Wittgenstein). Simultaneously, religion (direc ...xclude madness from philosophy bears witness to the fact that he remains a philosopher who is unable to think the Outside of philosophy, who is unable to think ho

...and enable them to think autonomously. No wonder that Socrates, the "first philosopher," was also its first victim, ordered by the democratic court of Athens to d ...ing way than the wildest philosophical speculations, so that the task of a philosopher is no longer to undermine the hierarchic symbolic edifice that grounds soci

...nes "care" as the fundamental feature of finite ''Dasein'') and Hegel (the philosopher of infinite Absolute Knowledge in which the Universal and the Particular ar ...rocess, who generate a catastrophe which can then give birth to new ethico-political awareness, without any claim that this unintended result in any way "justif

# the "''democratic''" anti-Platonism of political philosophy, from Popper to Arendt: Plato as the originator of "closed socie ...he "closed society" – there is a straight line from Hegelian totality to political totalitarianism.

...mensions apart. Our problem today is that, within the predominant logic of Political Correctness, such a procedure of keeping the two domains apart no longer fu ...Such words present us with harsh X-­rays of given ''areas ''of social and political experience; they turn into fantasies or deliriums only from the moment when

The predominant reading of Jacques Lacan reduces him to a kind of "philosopher of language" who emphasized the price the subject has to pay in order to ga ...an with whom full sexual relationship will be possible to the totalitarian political ideal of a fully realized community. In contrast, the fundamental maxim of