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ZIZ010 Materialism and Theology (2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Negative Judgment

I think that the true challenge today is to think this kind of materialism of multiplicities against the background of void. What we should do here, a little bit of excursors into count, you know, it's an old distinction that I'm referring to all the time,. Kantian distinction between negative and infinite judgment. Ecology is effectively as, but you put it to me in a private conversation, a new opium of the masses, for the masses, replacing religion. It takes over the old religions fundamental function that of putting on an unquestionable authority which can impose limits. The lesson, this ecology is constantly hammering is our finitude. We are not Cartesian subjects extracted

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