Quotes by Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

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Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to a — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very langua — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subje — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“e — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does i — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the cont — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipl — Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes