The Fokuyama Dilemma

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

We now take questions from the floor. A lav you are deeply a good stalion. No, i am ye fag democracy. You won't neforter her. In the frontier, there's two people with hands up and will do them in sequence. I'm jessie toublety from the philosophy department here at the university of bergen. Now o came here to day to tell us that you are still a communist. That's not an affirmation, that's a re affirmation. So my questions ar our two i've got, ah. The first is, what has prompted this re affirmation of your commitment to communism? And the second question is, has your commitment to

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.

Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video.

Recorded December 7th, 2019 Other ways to connect

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram
Follow Tyler on Twitter
Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu
Subscribe at our newsletter page to have the latest Conversations with Tyler news sent straight to your inbox.