Being and Subjectivity: Act and Evental Enthusiasm
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek in a friendly debate with students on ontology and politics in relation to Alain Badiou’s philosophy. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the status of the subject, transcendental phenomenal existence, the difference between act and Event, the necessity of terror, Christianity, Saint Paul, inconsistency of the big Other, the communist hypothesis and political nomination in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze...
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So, the title, Keep My Word, I propose this, if you agree with that, because finally, maybe, just maybe, although it's against my nature, it's time for me to keep my word, you know. What if then we do
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