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Title Exploring Aristotle's Poetics through the eyes of a modern novelist Description Audio recording of a lecture given on September 13, 2019 by William Kowalski as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator Kowalski, William, 1970- Publisher St. John's College Cover ... Show More

Title Philosophic Anthropology and the Emergence of Liberal Constitutionalism Description Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Michael Zuckert, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, on September 13, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series ... Show More

Title The United States, China, and Thucydides' many, many traps Description Audio recording of a lecture given on September 20, 2019 by Karl Walling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator Walling, Karl-Friedrich, 1957- Publisher St. John's College Coverage San ... Show More

Slavoj Žižek discussing the process of the event in relation to Alain Baidou. Slavoj Žižek speaking about consciousness, neurobiology, awareness, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, the Ptolemization of string theory, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Derrida, sublation, difference of organ ... Show More

Slavoj Žižek speaking about Hegel and Hegelian concepts of history and historicity, drawing not only on the works of Marxs Grundrisse and Jacques Lacan, but also on opera, Schoenbergs atonal revolution, the experience of impossibility, Freuds death drive, Steven King, … Continue ... Show More

Slavoj Žižek discussing the problem of negation and self reflection of life in Hegel, the logic of desire, Lacans master signifier and the object small a, opera, the masturbatory circle and the sexual act, as opposed to authentic love, Lars … Continue reading → 

Slavoj Žižek discussing Hegel in reference to Charlie Chaplins The Great Dictator, Leni Riefenstahl, fascism, the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg, Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo, objectivity in film. He also spoke about Peter Sloterdijk and Jürgen Habermas as well as ethics, dignity, … C ... Show More

Focusing on The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 2 "Perception." Hegel's critique of the adequacy of perceptual knowledge has metaphysical aspects: The relation of substance to properties, properties to each other, and things to other things and to the perceiver all create dif ... Show More

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism.Published by Intelligence Squared 

GWF Hegel is one of the most difficult philosophers in the western canon, but today we’ attempt to demystify him. In this episode, we’ll break down Hegel’s phenomenology, the dialectic, and the Hegelian understanding of desire. Our concrete entrypoint into the thought of Hegel is ... Show More

In this episode, I explain Hegel's criticisms of Kant philosophical efforts and their shortcoming in accounting for the actual operation of the faculties of understanding and reason in the world, in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Please consider donating to one of the following org ... Show More

In this lecture, 12th in the 2017 series, I discuss Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy of Being, interpreted through the eyes of the psychotherapists Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. The phenomenologists were attempting to reduce the painful separation between object and s ... Show More

Continuing on the Introduction, we get into more detail on Hegel's goal and his tricky terminology. If you're not hearing the full version of this part of the discussion, sign up via one of the options described at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.