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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

Why Theory

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The End of History Is a World in Which We Have Mutual Recognition

The end of history is something we've already gotten to, Hegel thinks. And it's when we recognize that contradiction is absolute, then we recognize that we're free. I want to say up with the mainstream left really bought into this idea that history was over. We are on this like this upward rocket to like, well, there'll still be poor people and homelessness sure, but things will get better.

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