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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

Why Theory

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Is This Really a Controversy?

"What's wrong with constantly seeking out the new contradiction, which. isn't this what you talked about with Camus? Isn't that it?" "I'm just trying to get my head around why the, what would be the, the difference between eternal struggle and reconciling contradictions," he says. "It seems like not a proper contradiction." 'We're eternally struggling,' is his answer when asked if there has been any progress in recent years on issues such as gay marriage or feminism. "'Theory of evolution' doesn't mean we've gone from one state to another without change,'" she adds. "[T]hose notions of progress are far more easily pinned onto technological process

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