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• Slavoj Žižek
  ...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]
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  |'''[[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
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...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
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• Alain Badiou
  ...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
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...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
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• Semiotics
  ...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
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...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
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• Giorgio Agamben
  '''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
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...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]].
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• Judith Butler
  ...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
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...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
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• Deconstruction
  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
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• Gilles Deleuze
  '''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
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...) 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
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• Francis Fukuyama
  ...Science]], and is currently Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political [[Economy]] and Director of the International [[Development]] Program at th
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• Félix Guattari
  ...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
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• Jürgen Habermas
  June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf) is a [[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theo
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...]], 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
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• Claude Lefort
  ...order]] of [[power]], the order of law and the order of [[knowledge]]" ("[[Philosopher]]?", 1985). [[Category:Political theory|Lefort, Claude]]
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• Georg Lukács
  ...'' (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
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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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• The Matrix, or, the 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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• NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
  ...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
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...] 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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• Human Rights and its Discontents
  ...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
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...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 [[
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...[[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
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  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
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• Works about Slavoj Zizek
  * [[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]],
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• Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences
  ...izek opens up new possibilities of thought beyond the terms of the current political debates on globalization, democratization, war on terror. Once again, Zizek
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...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
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