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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

Why Theory

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Is It Political Freedom?

Sally Kohn: We talked about this a little bit, um, pre-show. She says she thinks political freedom is more on the state's side than civil society or economy. The only way that can actually be constituted as freedom is with politics to polis, not formal ones like we have in our own homes and families,. Right? That's what I think Hegel means when he calls it 'the social free' SALLY KORN: When we're alienated from our private selves, that's when we have the chance of becoming free.

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