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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

Why Theory

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Is Hegel's Reconciliation With Contradiction Politically Effective?

Feminism is very appealing to me in this way, because I think it's very Hegelian. Part of the structure of patriarchy is to deny women their very being as contradictory. So you have some women who are virgins, right? And you have someWomen who are sluts or whatever the perjorative term is,. And, and the two are separate. Right. The basic function of ideology is to take contradiction and turn it into difference - which Delus would say is exactly the opposite. It takes difference. It turns into a contradiction. Okay. See if you accept this.

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