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Mar 2023
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ZIZ290 What is freedom today? (27.05.202...

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Isn’t Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom? We will be able to discuss this live with a lecturer who is in the TOP-25 of the world’s best intellectuals according to Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (USA). He was nicknamed “Elvis of Theory of Culture” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world.”

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