3 documents
What If I Want You To Let Me Go?
Slavoj Žižek
e-flux Notes
Posted: July 26, 2024
Category
Film, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Subjects
Fiction
# 34
Hegel on Marriage
Slavoj Žižek
Far from providing the natural foundation of human lives, sexuality is the very terrain where humans detach themselves from nature: the idea of sexual perversion or of a deadly sexual passion is totally foreign to the animal universe. Here, Hegel fails with regard to his own standards. He only considers how, in the process of culture, the natural substance of sexuality is cultivated, sublated, mediated—we humans no longer just make love for procreation, we get involved in a complex process…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2012
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Sexuality & Eroticism, Communism
Subjects
Opera
# 32
Hegel versus Heidegger
Slavoj Žižek
Heidegger’s Critique of Hegel
One of the standard critiques of Hegel, first formulated already by the “young Hegelians,” concerns the apparent contradiction between Hegel’s dialectical method and his system. While Hegel’s method approaches reality in its dynamic development, discerning in every determinate form the seeds of its own destruction and self-overcoming, his system endeavors to render the totality of being as an achieved order in which no further development is in view. With…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Language & Linguistics, Film, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Subjects
Ontology