An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Philosophy of Totalitarianism
Nils Bork said that ideology works even if you don't believe in it. So how to, what can a theorist do here? How to deal with all this? I think the first one who provided the right direction, although in a negative way, was my favorite Catholic theology,. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. In his novel he ironically, but nonetheless seriously, opposed to install, I quote, a special corpse of policemen, policemen who are also philosophers. The idea is that a straight road leads from philosophical notion of totality to political totalitarianism or as we usually ironically put it the line from Plato to NATO.
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