ZIZ005 Plea for Ethical Violence (2004)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Jewish Legacy of Moral Sensitivity
In art, the artist has to undergo a kind of radical self-objectiveization. He has to die in and for himself, turn himself into a kind of living death. For Nietzsche, such moral sensitivity culminates precisely in the contemporary last man who fears excessive intensity of life as something that may disturb his search for happiness without stress. The pronouncement of the decaloc is ethical violence at its viewers," he says.
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