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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Subjective Authenticity

Schopenhauer and especially his mother were honest here. For Gerta Gert, also, this is the intense actuality of subjective authenticity which cannot in any way be covered up by abstract Hegelian ideas. Marx has all this rather primitive reduction in real life. It's not idea which is developing, moving itself. It's it real people who, while thinking, develop ideas and so on. This old-bodied idea that Hegel confuses the subject and the predicate.

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