The New Leftism of the Humanities

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In avay from australia. Sad my greetings. How to regain some type of democratic legitimacy without cancelling themselves as nomenclatura? The answer, obvious, was, paint yourself as defender of national interests,. On the other hand, i must say, what makes me so depressive, and the united states are big enough, are not the worse. But especially yu c, i don't know how it is here. It's this pragmatic turn of philosophy has to serve concrete social needs. Academia should be a place for this.

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.

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