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Bataille, Lacan, and the Real with Tim Themi

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The Politics of Transgression

The aim of the book is to show how capitalism inherits this sort of doctor or distorted taboo transgression relation and where's to struggling with it. The politics distinction, which is also a relation parallel to the relationship between to be a transgression or symbolic in the imaginary, becomes very important for the mature of the time. And what I did at Wampon was trace it back to sort of Nietzsche's complaint about Plato wanting to ban Homer from the Republic. This ain't Plato versus Homer, it was the true antagonism of Western history. But then there's also the critique of communism or Marxism that Patai has, which I argue as still a Marxist and a still a communist

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