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• Desire
  ...] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], not a [[contingency]], and its [[subjective]] correlate is ...ect that is genuinely revolutionary and that makes possible a [[rational]] critique of the [[notion]] of '[[object relations]]' and its clinical applications.
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• Philosophy
  [[Freud]] regarded "[[philosophy]]" as one of the great [[cultural]] institutions, alongside [[art]] and [[religion]] - the mark of a highly d It is [[Kant]]'s [[philosophy|moral philosophy]] (the ''[[Critique of Practical Reason]]'') which most interests [[Lacan]], and he discusses t
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• Semiotics
  ...closer to some of the [[humanities]] (including [[literary theory]] and [[cultural anthropology]]). ...of other disciplines, especially journals oriented toward philosophy and [[cultural]] criticism.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...state]] of [[psychosexual]] development and awareness. He also turned to [[cultural anthropology|anthropological]] studies of [[totemism]] and argued that tote ...phasized or ignored, such as [[class]] relations. This branch of Freudian critique owes a great deal to the work of [[Herbert Marcuse]].
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• Critical theory
  ...rrational]] [[authority]]. Marx explicitly developed this notion into the critique of [[ideology]] and linked it with the [[practice]] of social [[revolution ...ntellectual pursuits, increasingly scholars are interested in the areas of critique where the two overlap.
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[the big Other]]. And she is too [[pessimistic]] because, by limiting her critique to this fild, she fails to see the possibility of the overhaul of the [[who ...ts own [[impossibility]] or gap. Žižek uses the [[logic]] of the Real to critique Butler’s understanding of the subject’s unconscious attachments to subj
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• Deconstruction
  ...''is''. According to Derrida, deconstruction is neither an [[analysis]], a critique, a method, an act, nor an operation. (Derrida 1985, at 3.) In addition, dec ==Logocentrism and the critique of binary oppositions==
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...War]] and the bulk of the [[20th century]]. Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of va He surmised that to [[understand]] conflict in our age and in the [[future]], cultural rifts must be [[understood]], and culture (instead of the state) must be ac
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...deterministic and essentialist theories of sexual development. The second critique advanced by [[feminism]] is that psychoanalysis always defines women negati ...not mean that sexual identity is the sum of [[natural]] (biological) and [[cultural]] (signifying) elements, but rather that it is that which is left out of th
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...g for his many writings - including <i>The Ticklish Subject</i>, a playful critique of the intellectual assault upon human subjectivity (1).</b><br class="Nets ...</td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">Today's racism is precisely this racism of cultural difference. It no longer says: 'I am more than you.' It says: 'I want my cu
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rovided perfect descriptions of the [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of the [[Cultural]] Studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our dail ...theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of the Cultural Studies chic.
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...attering the isolated tower of the [[liberal]] tolerant attitude and the [[Cultural]] Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal w ...opposition between leading a long [[satisfying]] life full of material and cultural wealth, and dedicating one's life to some transcendent Cause. Two [[philoso
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...mic fashion. Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic p ...his Leninist freedom of choice - not "[[Life]] or [[money]]!" but "Life or critique!" -, combined with Lenin's dismissive attitude towards the "liberal" notion
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  The [[author]] who has provided the ultimate formulation of this critique of psychoanalysis is [[Alain]] [[Badiou]]. He deserves special attention in ...er: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex interactions allow us to account for a given event,
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...atch up with the virtual [[game]]) really the only way to operationalize a critique of capitalism? What if the problem of capitalism is not this solipsistic ma ...urgent task of the economic analysis today is, again, to [[repeat]] Marx's critique of [[political]] [[economy]], without succeeding on to the temptation of th
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e most harmful [[thing]] here would be haste." Against this insistence on "cultural revolution", Stalin opted for the anti-Leninist notion of "building sociali ...ps, in fact, all political 'terror', from the Jacobins to the [[Maoist]] [[Cultural Revolution]], presupposes the displacement of production onto the terrain o
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ...Leninist [[forced]] choice-not "Your [[money]] or your [[life]]!" but "No critique or your life!" combined with his dismissive attitude toward the liberal not
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...e transformative [[process]] of historical [[practice]]. According to this critique, [[the symbolic]] fixes in advance the constraints of compulsory [[heterose ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ontrary, assert antinomy as irreducible, and conceive the point of radical critique not a certain determinate position as opposed to another position, but the ...essity - is also not simply noumenal. In a mysterious subchapter of his <i>Critique of Practical Reason</i> entitled "Of the Wise Adaptation of Man's Cognitive
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  As [[cultural conservatism|cultural conservatives]] would have put it today, [[deconstructionist philosophers]] ...the necessity of illusion on which, among others, Bourdieu insists in his critique of Levi-[[Strauss]]'s explanation of potlatch: it is not enough just to cla
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• Move the Underground!
  ...at <i>acheronta movebo</i> ("moving the underground") as a practice of the critique of ideology means: not directly changing the explicit text of the Law, but, ...onsistent) series of phenomena that bother people (corruption, moral and [[cultural]] decadence, sexual depravity, commercialization, [[class]] [[struggle]] an
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] and [[rituals]] which are transferred from generation to genera ...odern" version, AND that Muslims continue to function as the figure of the cultural-racial Other. Where, in this opposition, is the [[truth]]? Definitely not
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• Opera
  <font face="BOOKMAN" size="3">This is the core of [[Wagner]]'s critique of [[religion]]: one has to get rid of the old Platonic topos of love as [[ ...zed its funerals. Again and again, it reemerges as the Mecca of European [[cultural]] fundamentalists - the site of their <i>hadj</i>, sacred pilgrimage - you
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ther religions — for them, the Buddha statues were just fake idols, not "cultural treasures." (And, incidentally, is this outrage not the same as that of tod ...without being accused of anti-Semitism, but, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they se
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ral democracy, without losing their official mask of its "radical" Leftist critique. Openly acknowledging this solidarity would deprive them of their "radical" ...></a> He thereby announced the necessity of what Mao Ze Dong called the "[[Cultural]] Revolution" as the condition of the successful social revolution. What, e
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...n, far from posing a mortal [[threat]] to democracy (as [[conservative]] [[cultural]] critics [[want]] us to believe), opens up a unique [[chance]] of "absolut ...this obstacle dissipates... (Therein would reside a possible [[Lacanian]] critique of Marx, focusing on the ambiguous overlapping between surplus-value and su
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural [[difference]] (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite Based on this insight, Dupuy proposes a convincing critique of John Rawls [[theory]] of justice: in the Rawls' model of a just society,
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  Was, however, that what triggered such violent reactions really the cultural gap between the secular West and the Muslim countries, i.e., the fact that ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural difference (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite fact
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• Surrealism
  ...has adopted Marxist beliefs does not intend to treat lightly the Freudian critique of ideas" (Breton, 1930). Breton soon quit the Communist Party, which repro ...roisWittmann, in 1933 the Breton-Freud correspondence of 1932, a favorable critique of [[Jacques Lacan]]'s [[doctoral dissertation]] by René Crevel, and, also
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• Frankfurt School
  ...de for certain kinds of [[knowledge]] and a direct connection between such critique and the emphasis on [[moral]] [[autonomy]]. In an intellectual context defi ...]'s work, which presented itself as critique, as in Marx's "[[Capital]]: a critique of [[political]] [[economy]]", wanting to emphasize that Marx was attemptin
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• Parallax View
  ...ontrary, assert antinomy as irreducible, and conceive the point of radical critique not a certain determinate position as opposed to another position, but the ...essity - is also not simply noumenal. In a mysterious subchapter of his <i>Critique of Practical Reason</i> entitled "Of the Wise Adaptation of Man's Cognitive
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly meets the lowest [[pop psychology]].
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...cal]] over-reaction against"free-floating" [[intellectual]] renders such a critique suspicious: distrust of intellectuals is ultimately distrust of [[philosoph ...ting [[formulas]] of private authenticity propagated by the contemporary [[cultural]] industry - from taking lessons in spiritual [[enlightenment]] a to engagi
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ther religions — for them, the Buddha statues were just fake idols, not "cultural treasures." (And, incidentally, is this outrage not the same as that of tod ...without being accused of anti-Semitism, but, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they se
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...mic fashion. Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic p ...his Leninist freedom of choice - not "[[Life]] or [[money]]!" but "Life or critique!" -, combined with Lenin's dismissive attitude towards the "liberal" notion
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...niform spectrum, political differences are more and more reduced to merely cultural attitudes: multicultural/sexual (etc.) 'openness' versus traditional/natura ...ness - a non-antagonistic society in which there is room for all manner of cultural communities, lifestyles, religions, sexual orientations. The reply of a mat
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The [[author]] who has provided the ultimate formulation of this critique of psychoanalysis is [[Alain Badiou]]. He deserves special attention insofa ...er: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex interactions allow us to account for a given event,
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...e transformative [[process]] of historical [[practice]]. According to this critique, [[the symbolic]] fixes in advance the constraints of compulsory [[heterose ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...mic fashion. Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic p ...his Leninist freedom of choice - not "[[Life]] or [[money]]!" but "Life or critique!" -, combined with Lenin's dismissive attitude towards the "liberal" notion
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...atch up with the virtual [[game]]) really the only way to operationalize a critique of capitalism? What if the problem of capitalism is not this solipsistic ma ...urgent task of the economic analysis today is, again, to [[repeat]] Marx's critique of [[political]] [[economy]], without succeeding on to the temptation of th
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• Democracy
  ...cs]]”, aiming to reinstate by authoritarian means a sense of symbolic, [[cultural]] boundaries. ...roadly [[speaking]], Žižek has embraced a version of the old [[Marxist]] critique of [[liberal democracies]], for which the “[[superstructure]]” of liber
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• Anarchy
  ...extent it can provide a coherent [[theoretical]] foundation for a radical critique of existing political practices, discourses and institutions. The aim of th ...Marxism, is a discourse of revolution, it must be submitted to a Lacanian critique of the revolutionary position and its immanent [[authoritarianism]]. In oth
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  Tarrying with the [[Negative]]: [[Kant]], Hegel and the Critique of Ideology, Durham: Duke [[University]] Press, 1993. ...of fascinating local insights which range across all aspects of political, cultural and [[social]] [[life]]. If parts of the book are very demanding, it does r
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• Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
  ...ues Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural Theory)]]'''''. SZ editor. London: Routledge. December 23, 2002, 1st Editio ...|The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)]]'''''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. August 1, 199
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• The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
  ...'s philosophical revolution and in so doing opened up the way for a viable critique of Hegel. In noted philosopher Slavoj Zizek's view, the main orientations o ...|The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)]]'''''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. August 1, 199
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...pacity crowd enraptured while demolishing the platitudes of contemporary [[cultural]] debate. Every now and again he'll digress from his urgently enacted scrip ..., as well as for [[being]] highly accessible. [[Britain]]'s best-selling [[cultural critic]], Terry Eagleton, has written of Zizek's "enviable knack of making
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...<em>The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]]</em> to his trenchant 1999 critique of Western governments' [[intervention]] in the former Yugoslavia, titled < ...s to combine unrestrained global capitalism with a more [[conservative]] [[cultural]] politics.</p>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  ambiguous political profile--<i>marxisant</i> cultural critic on ..."" face="arial" size="-1"><b>CH:</b> <i>I [[want]] to ask about one common critique of your work, most
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ....c. imaginary - a kind of hegemonization of the very terrain (the politico-cultural conditions of possibility) that produces and predisposes the contemporary l ...entally distance themselves from this type of distortion in their explicit critique of Third Way politics (Laclau and Mouffe, 2001: xv).<br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ion of texts and situates the reader in the center of layered contemporary cultural and theoretical arguments.' (Teresa L. Ebert, author of <i>Ludic Feminism a ...udies, assuming that 'whatever analysis is made of particular uses made of cultural texts in determinate situations, the problem of textuality remains in any c
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