The chapter explores the concept of changing the past, discussing the consequences and interpretations of historical events such as the Holocaust and the Opium War in China. It also touches upon the justification of free trade by British powers and explores different perspectives, including from a Marxist viewpoint.
Žižek & So On Podcast
Today we’re speaking with Slavoj Žižek for PART ONE of the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’s latest book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure.
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On this episode, we’re talking freedom, knowledge as a fetish, global warming, why the struggle for freedom is always the struggle for what freedom means, Jean Paul Sartre, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Kant and Hegel, contingency and necessity, and the strange temporality of freedom.
We’re also about to start our READING GROUP on Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure in our Discord which you can sign up for through our Patreon!
Thanks to Bloomsbury and all our Patreons, next up we’re speaking with Alenka Zupančič.
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