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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Inuit Wharton's Age of Innocence

We have this need for another one to remain pure to believe. Agnes Heller, probably unknown to almost all of you, is a Hungarian philosopher who was during World War II in Auschwitz. In every barrack there were two types of people: survivalists and the living dead. The ones who simply no longer cared, just as living dead walked around.

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