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Apr 2016
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ZIZ044 The Irony of Buddhism (2012)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Slavoj Žižek talking about the truth and irony of Buddhism. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses Badiou’s conception of the Event and supernumerary element, the universality of truth, the paradox of inactivity, the temporality of analysis, American ideology, the problem … Continue reading → 
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