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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
The Zero Level of Historicity
In many of my books, especially in this obscenity that you have there, I think I quote this wonderful passage from my favorite rational choice theoretician who is a intelligent guy. No, it, necessity emerges in a retroactive way. There are, unfortunately, put it, once things happen, they retroactively become necessary. So, again, the zero level of historicity is this basic division, this impossibility. We experienced history when we, all of a sudden, discovered that something is no longer possible. The way we were doing things, of course, it's possible, but it becomes a fake in a way.
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