
ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Third Rule of Historicalist Contextualization
The rule of historicist contextualization is the ultimate affront to anyone who knows even vaguely what Hegel is about. Abstraction is inscribed in social relations themselves, so that I don't get lost in these preambles. The relationship between mourning and melancholy may appear to you an innocent example, but when I was in Chicago, half a year ago, over five examples of young post-graduates didn't get their job because they opted for to put it in a if-turns for mourning against melancholy.
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