More Alienation and the Cultural Violence
Slavoj Žižek
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Jul 2, 202622 April 2016
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The shock over the terrorist attacks in Paris in January 2015 inspired Žižek to write an essay on Islam and modernism. In it, he addresses the rupture between the Western world’s advocacy for tolerance and the fundamental hatred of Western liberalism within radical Islam. Žižek makes a plea for the West to insist on the legacy of the Enlightenment, with its strengths of criticism and self-reflection.
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maybe i will break my own rule and nonetheless stand here if i may to keep it lively i decided nonetheless to just improvise a lot with what some people call and i hate it my provocative spirit or wha
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