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• Jacques Lacan
  ...pact on [[critical theory]], [[literary theory]], twentieth-century French philosophy, [[sociology]], [[feminist]] theory and [[clinical]] psychoanalysis. ...upérieure. His audience is made up of [[analysts]] and young students in philosophy at the ENS, notably [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  * Lacan is taught [[philosophy]] by Jean Baruzi, a remarkable Catholic thinker who wrote a dissertation on ...eudians” (a clear majority), the French second generation, following the philosophy of Marie Bonaparte, tries to occupy a different [[space]]. Dissident lumin
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• On Belief
  ...eligious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers th
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• Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
  ...ive merits of post-structumalism and [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]] for a critical [[social]] theory.
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  ...e: The Crime of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts]]</i>, vol.5, 3, 1988. <b>The [[Family]] [[Complexes]]</b>, transl. by Carolyn Asp in <i>Critical Texts</i>, vol.5, issue 3, 1988. Also transl. by Andrea Kahn in <i>Semiotex
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• Psychoanalytic Theory
  The term often attaches to conceptual uses of analysis in [[critical theory]], [[literary criticism|literary]], [[film criticism|film]], or [[ot ...f [[Psychological trauma|trauma]] through [[literary]] studies informed by philosophy, [[psychology]], [[neurology]], and [[Freudian]] and [[Lacanian]] theory).
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• Semiotics
  ...l, while semiotics is deeply concerned about non-linguistic signification. Philosophy of language also bears a stronger connection to linguistics, while semiotic ...lastic]] philosophy. More recently, [[Umberto Eco]], in his "Semiotics and philosophy of language" has argued that semiotic theories are implicit in the [[work]]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel ...r Schopenhauer and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. Schopenhauer's [[pessimistic]] philosophy, expounded in ''The World as Will and [[Representation]]'', describes a [[r
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• Critical theory
  ...s there has been some overlap between these disciplines. This has led to "critical theory" becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the acade ==Critical theory (social theory)==
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...whose [[complete]] works he edited in Italian [[translation]]. Agamben's [[philosophy]] draws from [[Michel Foucault]] as well as from Italian neo-[[marxist]] th Giorgio Agamben is particularly critical of the [[United States]]' response to [[September 11, 2001 attacks|Septembe
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• Roland Barthes
  ...thes produced what many consider to be his most prodigious work, the dense critical [[reading]] of [[Balzac]]’s ''[[Sarrasine]]'' entitled ''[[S/Z]]''. Thro ...arliest work was very much a reaction to the trend of [[existentialist]] [[philosophy]] that was prominent during the [[1940s]], specifically towards the figureh
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• Deconstruction
  ...is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and The term ''deconstruction'' in the context of Western philosophy is highly resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perh
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• German Idealism
  '''[[German]] [[Idealism]]''' was a [[philosophy|philosophical]] movement in [[Germany]] in the late [[eighteenth century|ei ...known indirectly. This is the meaning that should be associated with the [[philosophy]] of German Idealism.
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• Jürgen Habermas
  ...], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...talist]] industrial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German) [[politic
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• Max Horkheimer
  ...ecially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt [[School]] of [critical [[theory]]. [[Category:Philosophy|Horkheimer, Max]]
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• Georg Lukács
  ...the [[ideas]] of [[reification]] and [[class consciousness]] to [[Marxist philosophy]] and [[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influen ...ncerning [[Marxism]] and its relation to [[sociology]], [[politics]] and [[philosophy]], and for reconstructing [[Marx's theory of alienation]] before many of th
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...atural world. There is no subject independent of language. Lacan is highly critical of those encountertherapy groups that tend to deny the [[role]] of [[verbal
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...eedom]] of thought… however, one should treat Lenin in an "[[objective]] critical and [[scientific]] way," not in an attitude of nostalgic idolatry, and, fur ...minant political consensus. So everything is allowed, solicited even, as a critical topic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...Marx himself uses the term "objectively-necessary appearance". So, when a critical Marxist encounters a bourgeois subject immersed in commodity fetishism, the ...l]] observation apropos of this paradox, of course, would be that modern [[philosophy]] long ago elaborated such a notion of "objectively subjective." Therein re
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  Crucial here is Ranciere's critical distance towards Marxist meta-politics. The key feature of meta-politics is ...al social body, fixing the rules of political competition, etc. `Political philosophy' is thus, in all its different shapes, a kind of `[[defence]]-[[formation]]
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...s freedom of [[thought]]. However, one should treat Lenin in an objective, critical, and [[scientific]] way, not in an attitude of nostalgic idolatry, and, fur ...minant political consensus. So everything is allowed, solicited even, as a critical topic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophy, violations of
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...er, Cheney) [[doctrine]]," now publicly declared as the [[official]] US "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the 31 pages paper entitled "The Natio ...[[trauma]] for the hegemonic ideology — it had to defend itself against critical doubts, the gnawing worms was continuously at work and couldn't be simply s
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...<a name="7"></a><a href="#7x">7</a> Kojin Karatani endeavors to assert the critical potential of such a "parallax view": when confronted with an antinomic stan ...post-Kantian speculative-historical approach is the highest achievement of philosophy):<br><br>
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...tion]]" of a certain ethico-political [[struggle]] and decision - what a [[critical analysis]] should do is to discern the hidden political process that sustai ...e by citizenship and not citizenship by man."<ref>Etienne Balibar, "Is a [[Philosophy]] Of. Human Rights Possible," in <i>South Atlantic Quaterly</i> 2/3, Spring
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...orea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" [[state]] crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear weapons, one cannot simp
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...trikes means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the official American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...th Korea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" state crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear weapons, one cannot simp
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...the lines." The true, hidden message contained in the "Great Tradition" of philosophy from [[Plato]] to [[Hobbes]] and Locke is that there are no gods, that [[mo ...the power system? Say, in Real Socialism, there is a difference between a critical [[intellectual]] who, in order to get through his message, has to cide it i
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...its terrorist [[dimension]]? However, much more pertinent is [[another]] critical point which concerns Negri and Hardt's neglect of the FORM in the strict [[ ...determination of this rupture, what we get is again [[withdrawal]] into [[philosophy]]: "A philosophical book like this, however, is not the [[place]] for us to
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...combined with his crucial failure to [[understand]] the origins of his own critical impulse, has pushed him towards New Ageism. Although the Communist regimes
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• Seminar VII
  | <small>Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature</small><br />Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques L | <small>Suny Series Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature</small><br />Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques L
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...''' is the [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[concept]] central to the [[moral philosophy]] of [[Immanuel Kant]] and to modern [[deontological ethics]]. He introduce He expressed extreme [[dissatisfaction]] with the [[moral]] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never surpass the level of hypoth
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• Frankfurt School
  ...xism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The grouping emerged at the [[Institute for Social Research]] (''Institu ...rman]] [[idealism]], principally [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]]'s philosophy, with its emphasis on [[negation]] and [[contradiction]] as inherent proper
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• Walter Benjamin
  ...opher]]. He was at [[times]] associated with the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[critical theory]], and was also greatly inspired by the [[Marxism]] of [[Bertolt Bre [[Category:Philosophy|Benjamin, Walter]]
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• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...life's [[work]] was spent exploring [[other]] realms: Eastern vs. Western philosophy, [[alchemy]], [[astrology]], [[sociology]], as well as [[literature]] and t ...[[maturation]] (which he called the process of [[individuation]]) to be of critical importance to the human being, and ultimately to modern society.
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• Parallax View
  ...ge (Ma): MIT Press 2003.</ref> [[Kojin Karatani]] endeavors to assert the critical potential of such a "parallax view": when confronted with an antinomic stan ...e excessive core of philosophy itself, for what is in philosophy more than philosophy (which is why his main references are philosophical - in the index of <i>É
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...critique suspicious: distrust of intellectuals is ultimately distrust of [[philosophy]] itself. ...nfronted with arguments like this, one cannot but recall the old lesson of critical [[theory]]: when we try to preserve the authentic intimate sphere of privac
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...ižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpech-Ramey. <h ...ly four truth procedures:&nbsp; science, art, politics, and love (and then philosophy is just the study of these genetic procedures ...).&nbsp; The point is that
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• Liberation Hurts
  .... And I think that the [[limit]] is here - I admit it here, we are in deep critical waters - very refined, between... engaging in redemptive violence and what ...e then act today". You then suggest that [[Adorno]] and [[Horkheimer]]'s [[critical theory]] provides a "a supreme case of the reversal of positive into [[nega
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...orea, the underlying logic was clear: once a "rogue" [[state]] crosses the critical [[limit]] and already acquires substantial nuclear weapons, one cannot simp
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• Anarchy
  Anarchism is an [[enlightenment]]-based radical political [[philosophy]], at the heart of which is a [[dialectical]] relationship between freedom ...cal fantasy. We have seen that classical anarchism, as a radical political philosophy, is sustained not only by the idea of a rational social "object" that deter
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...] in [[English]] and it remains one of his most accessible books. Mixing [[philosophy]], [[politics]] and [[psychoanalysis]] with examples from high and low [[cu ...a [[whole]], Zizek also produces his most sustained explanation of Hegel's philosophy here, as well as dissecting the [[cogito]]. As this synopsis suggests, [[Ta
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• Works about Slavoj Zizek
  * [[Slavoj Žižek: A Critical Introduction]]. Ian Parker, London: Pluto Press. <http://www.lacan.com/zizc * [[The Last Analysis of Slavoj Žižek]]. Edward O'Neill, [[Film]]-[[Philosophy]], 5, June.
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• Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
  * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Philosophy in the Present]]'''''. ...in Cultural Theory|Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural Theory)]]'''''. SZ editor. London: Routledge. Decemb
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• Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory
  ...ns of Lacan's influence--[[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]] and [[practice]], [[philosophy]], [[social]] [[sciences]], and [[cultural]] studies, this set includes a n ...in Cultural Theory|Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural Theory)]]'''''. SZ editor. [[London]]: Routledge. De
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• Articles about Slavoj Zizek
  * [[Slavoj Žižek: A Critical Introduction]]. Ian Parker, [[London]]: Pluto Press. <http://www.lacan.com/ * [[Toward a Notion of Critical Self-Creation]]. Denise Gigante, New [[literary]] [[History]], 29
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...of an [[intellectual]]? As Zizek himself suggests in the interview here, [[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[com ...reviews" of the [[tragedy]] in American movies, Zizek refused to blunt his critical edge: "In a way, America got what it fantasized about."</p>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  say, there was a clear Frankfurt [[School]] or Critical Theory orientation, longer the [[State]] [[philosophy]]. It was some kind of vague [[humanist]] marxism,
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...e or supersede it. Two examples are informative here. In deconstructionist philosophy, Derrida has tended to reject the idea of the subject in favor of a concept The central issue is one of proximity; of maintaining a critical distance by keeping the Thing in focus (like the image on a screen) but wit
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  <tt>SLAVOJ ZIZEK: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION</tt></b></font><br><br> ...tp://www.plutobooks.com/" target="_new"><img src="zizcritintro.gif" alt="A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION image" align="left" border="0" height="315" width="200"></a>
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• Slavoj Zizek: A Primer
  Kay, S. (2003), <i>Zizek: A Critical Introduction</i>, Cambridge: Politiy Press.<br> Rorty, R. (1991), "Habermas, Derrida and the Functions of Philosophy", paper presented at the University of Essex; reproduced in Rorty, R. (19
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