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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Environmental Catastrophe

This gap between what we nationally know and what we unconsciously believe tells us I claim a lot about our predicament, namely how we relate usually to the prospect of ecological catastrophe. This is a paradox. We trust too much science abstract scientific reasoning. It's alienated secondary product of our primordial attitude which is our being embedded in a concrete life world. If we are to confront properly, I claim ecological catastrophe, we have to outgrow precisely this direct embeddedness.

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