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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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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 reading → 
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