Listen as Slavoj Žižek provides a Hegelian insight into political crises, explores the evolving meaning of truth, and discusses the role of philosophy in addressing societal issues. They also touch on quantum physics, the tension between individualism and a social approach, and the connection between philosophy and love.
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The Darkness of Subjectivity
The innermost core of the subject is not light, but darkness, as explored by Hegel and mystics like Jacob Boehme.
Light obfuscates this core, where true subjectivity resides.
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Philosophy's Late Arrival
Philosophy comprehends its own time, but always comes too late, revealing how epochs turn wrong.
Hegel's focus on how promise turns into failure is crucial for understanding our times.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Engels's Predictions
Engels predicted World War I and its aftermath with remarkable accuracy, including the rise of a revolution in a country like Russia.
He also foresaw a second world war triggered by Germany a decade or two later.
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Should we seek to fulfill our needs with multiple partners? Does dissecting a rat brain count as philosophy? Are we entering the age of corporate authoritarianism? Listen as Zizek guides us through these and other major questions of our time.
Slavoj Žižek provides a Hegelian insight into historical and current political crises. The dialectical repetition of history is not inevitable, and the recent trend away from continental 'transcendental historicism' will allow the continental tradition to shed new light on the world. Slavoj takes us on a whirlwind tour of continental philosophy from the pandemic to how philosophy is like falling in love.
Slavoj Žižek is a globally renowned philosopher and cultural critic. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He is the author of several books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Parallax View, Living in the End Times and Heaven in Disorder.
Philosophy For Our Times 