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Slavoj Žižek (1949 - ) is a Slovenian philosopher.
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What is 'real abstraction' and why can't it take place in the 'interior' of the subject?
I'm struggling to grasp what is meant by 'real abstraction' in Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology. As an example, consider the following paragraphs:
"A coin has it stamped upon its body that ...
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What does Lacan mean by signifiers presenting a subject for another signifier?
I was reading an article on Lacan's Signifier concept posted on nosubject.com. I am very confused by this one sentence:
Lacan defines a signifier as
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What Does Zizek Mean by Post-Oedipal capitalism?
Zizek says Post-Oedipal capitalism is the dominant system today, and this is in reference to Deleuze and Guattari's work and issue against Freud. From WP:
Deleuze and Guattari analyze desire and ...
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How has Foucault and post modernism in general become the dominant lense of analysis in Western Academia and how do Hegelians and others oppose that?
I have read of the strong impact of Foucault (the most cited author ?) and post-modernist lenses in particular in Academia. From Edward Said's Orientalism to Spivak's work (which even doe was a ...
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Can there be a Nietzschean Will to Power when our subonscious affects our desires which are dictated by ideology as Zizek points out?
Does nietzsche argue there is free will ? how can he simultaneously claim our desire is affected by the subconscious and also claim that we must figure those out and assert our will when Zizek ...
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What does Zizek mean in this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7qdowoemo
Romantic love, especially in its infatuation stage, is evil.
Asserting that the world as it is, or a world imagined to be ideal, is the best state of ...
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What does Zizek mean?
He says firstly: There is thus no need to post a magic "downward" causality, the ability of "higher" ideal (Dennet: "design") processes to causally determine the "...
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Can Zizek's big Other be seen as a collective form of "bad faith"?
I refer to this question to define the big Other for Zizek.
Couldn't the big Other be seen as what enforces the mauvaise foi (what makes us behave like we have no choice to avoid existential dread), ...
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What does Zizek think of Bill Gates?
Reading some Zizek's work, I’ve found so far the following opinions:
from “Violence”: nowadays philanthropists are just ultra capitalists that can now afford to donate because they took obscene ...
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What does Slavoj Zizek mean by Hegel's reading of "felix culpa"?
Recently I watched "The duel of the century" between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson.
Briefly in 2:17:45 min. Zizek points out to Hegel reading of "The story of the fall", a quote from Zizek
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Too involved with who you think you are
What does Slavoj Zizek mean when he says "...too involved with who you think you are..." and quoting Lacan "a madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king but also a king who thinks he is a ...
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Questions on Peter Hallward's introduction to Alain Badiou's Ethics?
In his introduction to "Ethics" by Alain Badiou he does a quick run down on how the analytic ethics of Lacan differ from the philosophical ethics of Badiou. I'm having a hard time ...
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Readings of the Other?
I have come across the term 'the Other' several times while reading/watching videos of Zizek's/Derrida. While googling the answer to my question of what the Other is and represents is an option, I ...
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How to delve into Structuralism?
Any recommendations for someone who is interested in reading Structuralist writings and perhaps where to begin?
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Can cruelty and suffering be justified if it might lead to social transformation?
Slavoj Žižek is generally viewed as controversial. But in watching a recent video made by him, he had a good point about us lengthening the pain of others. For example, he argues that "good" slave ...
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Is Slavoj Žižek taken seriously in academic circles?
I first saw a couple of youtube videos of Slavoj Žižek and was impressed by his style and his ideas. Then I tried to read "The Parallax View" and found it very difficult to follow and incoherent from ...
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On Capitalism and Communism [closed]
In an interview/talk Zizek points out that capitalism has received maximum boost in counties with communist ideologies (China) . How can this trend be explained considering both systems have ...
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Help me get this Hegel joke
A Facebook group Philosophy Matters posts philosophy related jokes from time to time.
Today they posted this image :
with the caption
hegel, le sacre monstre
Now not knowing anything about Hegel ...
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Slavoj Žižek on Silicon Valley culture [closed]
I'm looking for a certain remark made about Silicon Valley technologists as "fascists". Or a related remark.
I don't remember if it was part of an article or something said in an interview.
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I'm looking for texts and talks where Zizek talks about Mimetic Theory of Rene Girard
I'm looking for texts and talks, where Zizek responds to the Mimetic Theory of Rene Girard. Also the other way around would be interesting.
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What is a Master-Signifier?
I am currently reading "The Fragile Absolute" by Slavoj Žižek.
In chapter four he talks about the Master-Signifier. I am not very familiar with Lacan's concepts (I think it comes from him), so could ...
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What could be a philosophical view on hallucinations and selfidentity? [closed]
I am writing my thesis on the experience of hearing voices and I am looking at it from an Interpretative Phenomenoogical (methodology IPA) perspective, so I am also reading a lot of philosophy at the ...
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Why does Zizek always jump to generalizations after describing a concrete example? [closed]
Having read a handful of Zizek's books and articles, you can see that there is a pattern in how he jumps to some general claim after describing an actual situation/joke. Most of the times I feel these ...
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What is the Lacanian “Big Other”?
Zizek often draws on Lacan’s term “the Big Other”; what is this and what does it mean?
One supposes that there may also then be a “Little Other” - is this right?
What would be sensible examples of ...
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Can Julian Assange be considered a political philosopher?
Here I do not mean philosophy as its original ancient greek meaning, love of the wisdom. What I mean is a person who establishes the central ideas of some movement, cult, etc.
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How can Schelling’s philosophy as a whole be characterized?
F. W. J. Schelling’s thought is undergoing an exciting renaissance and reawakening today, which has caused a reconsideration of German Idealism and his influence on the thought of Marx, Freud, Bergson,...
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Colonization of the imaginary - is this even possible?
Nowhere is this fetishist logic more evident than apropos of Tibet, one of the central references of the post-Christian "spiritual" imaginary. Today, Tibet more and more plays the role of such a ...
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How would Zizek explain his own popularity with contemporary media?
The functioning of cinema and other artistic and informational mediums within capitalism have been problematised by Zizek from a number of perspectives. within the huge volume of content which Zizek ...
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Globalization directly resuscitates local traditions [closed]
I saw this on Wallerstein's writing, and I am not sure how one leads to this conclusion.
What is the source of this quote, "Globalization directly resuscitates local traditions", and how does one ...
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What are the most significant contributions Slavoj Žižek has made to the field of philosophy?
What are the most significant contributions Slavoj Žižek has made to the field of philosophy, perhaps in particular to political philosophy?
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Why did Heidegger (postmodernism) ignore Schelling's later thought?
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) seems to be a seriously overlooked figure of modern philosophy: is there a good reason (beyond the merely historical) for his diminished relative importance compared, for ...
