ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Hegelian Theory of History
When you pretend to return to the past, you either are simply an irrelevant, historically irrelevant, nostalgic, or you really do something radical in you. For example, again, Luca, as we all know, he didn't perceive himself as a revolutionary, but they're gone contrary and he achieved what is arguably the most radical revolution in the history of Christianity. Like Pascal, he wrote, I think somewhere in his being can defend, a very nice analysis of Pascal where he says, there was in Pascal's era already this modernity, Galileo and science and so on,. And he said, well, the liberal, early rationalists simply endorsed modernity. Pascal asked a totally different question
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