Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 2/8
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, intelligent design, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, Slavoj Zizek.
Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan's son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge. 1992, Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, New Carolina: Duke University Press. 1993, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock,1993, The Metastates of Enjoyment,1994, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, The Abyss of Freedom, University of Michigan Press. 1997, The Plague of Fantasies, Multi-culturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism, New Left Review, issue 225 pgs. 28--51, The Ticklish Subject, 1999, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), Verso. 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. The Fragile Absolute, 2000, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 2001, The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, British Film Institute (BFI), On Belief, Routledge. Opera's Second Death, Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O. 2001, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, 2002, Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, Organs Without Bodies. 2003, The Puppet and the Dwarf, 2003, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, 2004, Interrogating the Real, London, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005, The Universal Exception, London, 2006, Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press. The Parallax View, How to Read Lacan, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2007
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schzx (October 1, 2008 at 8:28 pm)
It's nice that zizek is an atheist but it seems totally contingent that he is because he's taking part in such a crazy discourse (continental philosophy?) that seems to be so disconnected from reality that reality doesn't affect what choices people make within that discourse. He could be religious and could offer an equally obscure and equally valid justification for that. Beginning to sound contintental myself... when it comes to atheism I much prefer dawkins, etc.
brokennarcissist (September 24, 2008 at 2:38 am)
So one the one invisible thing, or the one thing we can't articulate is the metaphysical principle?
WolYou (August 24, 2008 at 3:16 pm)
A good analysis of the superstition of our cultures and how it renders itself completely delusional.
code933k (August 22, 2008 at 2:07 am)
There is a historical-cultural load about that. And you can aknowledge its meaning in whichever dictionary you want. That´s enough to say it *must* mean something for any grouo of interest no matter if this meaning or sense is hostile to plain reason in some specific circumstances.
mrfatd (July 23, 2008 at 10:29 pm)
first of all, the word god does not signify ANYTHING
tokotokotoko3 (June 27, 2008 at 8:33 am)
So god is irrational? Which means he is not good or anything. He just does things random. Why believe in him? Why pray to him? This would for me be the first prove that there is no god.
And if you believe in that part of the bible, then most other versions of god (mainly the benevolent god) are wrong. You may end up in some kind of deism - but you can't be a believer in the Christian god (and neither in the Islamic god).
thisisnothappening2 (June 24, 2008 at 7:18 am)
nice name RealEngines
thisisnothappening2 (June 24, 2008 at 7:18 am)
problema-tee hee hee.
RealityEngines (June 4, 2008 at 8:43 pm)
The whole human story is the story of reason's struggle against superstition.
1234javaad (May 8, 2008 at 2:54 am)
This is very good but Slavoj doesnt know that as well gods transcendence or otherness (Tanzih), Islam also stresses his similitude or immanance (Tashbih. |
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