Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed
Slavoj Žižek
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Jul 2, 20261 November 2022
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Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled “Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?”
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The transcript is a complex, formal discourse analyzing political, social, and cultural issues including Cold War ironies, the evolving concept of shame, Stalinism's obsession with appearances, Chinese political theater, debates on gender identity and LGBT+ ideology, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and global capitalism's crises. It critiques ideological extremes, explores psychoanalytic perspectives on identity, and warns of rising authoritarian and neoconservative alliances, urging critical engagement beyond simplistic binaries.
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