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Heidegger, Buddhism.
Zizek writes, that the difference between Heidegger and Buddhism is that according to the former, Sein needs a Dasein that thinks about it, while according to the latter Sein needs nothing (goal being...
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Гегель, диалектика
Дядя из хорошего университета объясняет в он-лайн лекции людям гегелевскую диаликтику за 10 минут. Вот, говорит, в юности вы хотели стать космонавтом, потом немного подросли и решили стать, там,...
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Kierkegaard (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer)
These three are oddballs in philosophy and I have a hard time understanding what the big deal is. The first two whine and the last one spouts. Yet for some reason they are incessantly quoted or...
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Culture, Barbarism, Žižek, Vico
In this essay, Žižek quotes Benjamin, and wonders with him: ”what if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?” He gives an example of how culture can be...
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Hegelian Myths
I found a section on debunking “hegelian myths” on, I think hegel.com. The myths include Hegel rejecting the law of excluded middle, his saying that we live at the end of arts, philosophy, times… And...
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Truth of the Truth of the Revolution
Dmitry Bykov in his literary lectures often mentions, that while the Russian Revolution of October 1917 was a horrible event that brought terror, annihilation of tens of millions, displacement of...
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Ideology & Metaphysics
“[T]el refus du dogmatisme est la condition minimale de toute critique des idéologies, pour autant qu’une idéologie n’est pas identifiable à n’importe quelle représentation leurrante, mais a toute...
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Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism
As we are approaching the times, where, according to some bright contemporary minds (Adrian Johnston, Catherine Malabou) to name a couple the debt of biology which according to Freud should explain...
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Ontological Catastrophe
This wonderful book is not to be missed. As a matter of fact I have been waiting for it for years! My foray into the wonderful world of Slavoj Žižek started when I first watched this video a while ago....
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