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Suicidální reflexe

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Hauser M.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2009

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vol. 57

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issue 3

395-413

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This article aims to be a contribution to debate of the typology of the modern and post-modern subject which has once again flared up in connection with the work of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. I attempt to show that the subject is connected with a suicidal dimension which creates space marked off from a given context. Firstly I attempt to interpret Benjamin’s paper Charles Baudelaire. Ein Lyriker im Zeitalter des Hochkapitalismus in which suicide is spoken of as the foundation of the modern subject (suicide as “the heroic passion of modernity”). I put Benjamin’s “heroic passion” into the context of the passion that Marx describes in his Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte and in his article Vom Selbstmord. I attempt to define the difference between the Marxist conception of the body, which is wrapped up with this passion, and with the concept of the body in Lacan and Žižek. In the second part I develop the theme of suicide as dislocated space by means of Maurice Blanchot’s book The Writing of the Disaster. Suicidal space is understood as the space of the “neutral” which creates a parallel with Žižek’s “night of the world”. In conclusion I attempt to show that the basis of the modern subject is rather this suicidal space than the “night of the world”. If we interpret the post-modern subject as dwelling in suicidal space, and the modern subject as its overcoming, then the post-modern subject is the basis of the modern subject.

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Socialism or Death: The Quarantine Edition

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Konkol S.

Świat i Słowo

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2020

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vol. 34(1)

429-442

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Slavoj Žižek, PAN(DEM)IC! – COVID-19 SHAKES THE WORLD (New York and London: O/R Books) is a publicity stunt and a logistic achievement at least as much as a proper book. One must admire the speed with which it was produced and the foresight of its author, who began following the topic closely before most commentators in the West. It is all the more disappointing that the book’s central argument is not better organised and supported. This review considers both the moments of brilliance and the flaws of Slavoj Žižek’s most recent publication.

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Żywy trup jako alegoria polityczna

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Świrek K.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2015

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vol. 59(3 (450))

67-76

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In this article I will interpret the figure of living dead in terms of political allegory by relating three levels: the level of narration, theory, by which the narration can be decoded, and political situation, a symptom of which this narration is. In this way, I can trace the potential of two realizations of zombie figure in contemporary cinema: firstly, as a consumer, performing automated acts; secondly, as a revolutionary subject – excluded rebel. I treat both of those images as symptoms of radical political desire, its main motives and impasses.

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Ontologie Egona Bondyho jako anticipace současné filosofie

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Hauser M.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2021

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vol. 69

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issue 4

815-830

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This discussion study addresses the ontological and ethical questions that can be found in Myšlení a tvorba Egona Bondyho (The Thought and Creative Work of Egon Bondy), edited by Petr Kužel. This is the first monograph dedicated to the work of this original thinker. In the introductory part, I deal with the reasons that led to Bondy’s work being neglected up to this point in time by those who interpret philosophy. In the second part, I summarize the axiological and logical arguments put forward by the authors of the section of the book concerned with ontology, which should show that Bondy’s abandonment of the category of substance was justified. Then I explore two possible objections to the axiological justification of a non-substantial ontology and an objection to its logical justification. Nonetheless, in all parts of the study I show that Bondy anticipated a number of the principal themes of contemporary ontology and the theory of artificial intelligence, which have figured, for example, in the work of Slavoj Žižek or Nick Bostrom. In the closing part, I formulate some topics that, I believe, further research on Bondy should focus on.

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Tato diskusní studie se věnuje ontologickým a etickým otázkám, jež se objevily v knize Myšlení a tvorba Egona Bondyho, jejímž editorem je Petr Kužel. Jedná se o první monografií věnovanou dílu tohoto originálního myslitele. V úvodní části se zabývám důvody, které vedly k dosavadnímu opomíjení Bondyho díla ze strany interpretů filosofie. V druhé části shrnuji axiologické a logické argumenty předložené autory ontologického oddílu knihy, které mají dokázat, že Bondyho opuštění kategorie substance bylo oprávněné. Pak se zabývám dvěma možnými námitkami proti axiologickému zdůvodnění nesubstanční ontologie a námitkou proti jejímu zdůvodnění logickému. Ve všech částech studie nicméně ukazuji, že Bondy předjímal řadu zásadních témat současné ontologie a teorie umělé inteligence, které se objevují např. v díle Slavoje Žižka nebo Nicka Bostroma. V závěru formuluji několik témat, na něž by se podle mého názoru mělo zaměřit další bondyovské bádání.

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Koncepcja interpelacji ideologicznej a krytyczny dyskurs o prawie

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Mańko R.

Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej

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2014

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vol. 1(8)

41-54

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The present methodological paper aims at answering the question whether the notionof ideological interpellation, put forward by L. Althusser, in the form given to it by S. Žižek, can be operationalised in order to be deployed as a tool for the critical reading of legal texts. The paper gives a positive answer to the question, indicating that the application of the said method may contribute to the opening of legal discourse towards the impact of critical theory. The paper consists of three parts. The first part presents Žižek’s theory of ideology, the second part discusses the notion of ideological interpellation, and the third part is devoted to a preliminary attempt at operationalising the said notion.

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Rewolucja jako narzędzie emancypacji w myśli społeczno-politycznej Slavoja Žižka

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Drelich S.

Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne

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2021

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vol. 69

7-19

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The article discusses the relation between revolution and emancipation postulates in Slavoj Žižek’s social and political thought. In his texts, the author points out that the revolution is the only tool for the real emancipation of the excluded classes. The article is the result of the content analysis of few of the most important Žižek’s texts on revolution. The author uses an interpretative approach as well as hermeneutic and phenomenological methods. The analysis was made in three stages. In the first stage, the author points out that the revolution in Žižek’s thought is the quintessence of criticism of the symbolic order of the society. In the second stage, the author proves that revolution is a form of a radical political action that brings about a real change of order. In the third stage, the revolution is presented as an outbreak of freedom and democracy.

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W artykule podjęty został temat relacji między rewolucją a postulatem emancypacji w myśli społeczno-politycznej Slavoja Žižka. Autor wskazuje, że w tekstach myśliciela rewolucja jest jedynym skutecznym narzędziem prawdziwej emancypacji klas społecznych wykluczonych. Artykuł jest efektem analizy treści zawartych w najważniejszych tekstach Žižka, w których poruszana jest tematyka rewolucji. Autor stosuje podejście interpretatywne i metodę hermeneutyczno- fenomenologiczną. Analiza dokonana została w trzech etapach. W etapie pierwszym autor wskazuje, że rewolucja jest u Žižka kwintesencją krytyki obowiązującego w społeczeństwie porządku symbolicznego. W drugim etapie autor dowodzi, że rewolucja jest formą radykalnego działania politycznego, które przynosi prawdziwą zmianę porządku. W trzecim etapie rewolucja zostaje ukazana jako wybuch oddolnej wolności i demokracji mas społecznych.

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Historiozoficzna interpretacja rewolucji październikowej w myśli społeczno-politycznej Slavoja Žižka

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Drelich S.

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

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2022

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vol. 57

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issue 2

127-144

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The article presents the interpretation of the October Revolution made by Slavoj Žižek in his social and political writings. The thinker interprets the events of the 1917 revolution in a historiosophical context. He uses some concepts of the philosophy of history of Hegel and Marx in his deliberations. The Žižek’s interpretation is presented in five steps, which illustrate the most important elements of this concept. The article is based on the content analysis of Žižek’s main texts that include the most important considerations about the Bolshevik revolution.

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Artykuł prezentuje interpretację rewolucji październikowej w pismach społeczno-politycznych Slavoja Žižka. Myśliciel ten analizuje wydarzenia rewolucji 1917 r. w kontekście historiozoficznym. W rozważaniach posługuje się on pojęciami z zakresu filozofii dziejów Hegla oraz Marksa. Interpretacja Žižka przedstawiona została w pięciu krokach, w których zobrazowano najważniejsze elementy koncepcji.

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“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction

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Bolay J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2019

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issue 9

118-136

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In this paper I assess how Guy Vanderhaeghe’s early fiction criticizes the class-based and civil movements of post-1960s Saskatchewan through the recurring character of Ed. The protagonist of “Man Descending” and “Sam, Soren, and Ed” from Man Descending, the uncollected “He Scores! He Shoots!” and the novel My Present Age, Ed both condemns and epitomizes the contaminated and seductive gestures of the movements’ influences and enterprises. Vanderhaeghe deploys layers of social criticism: the first comments on the new urban progressive generation-the BMW socialists-while another manifests a counter-criticism that comments on those who challenge social progress, questioning their motives and the credibility of their critique. But what is a BMW socialist? A sociopolitical chameleon hiding behind pretense? Ed describes such a creature as a former “nay-sayer and boycotter” who “intended to dedicate his life to eternal servitude in a legal-aid clinic,” but then “affluence did him in” and now “his ass [is] cupped lovingly in the contoured leather seats of his BMW” (Man Descending 237–38). Vanderhaeghe’s early works criticize the contemporary middle class and progressivist movements of the second half of the twentieth century through this sociopolitical rogue-who in turn becomes a post-rogue. For Ed is ironically undercut by a counter-narrative that is often sub-textual, resulting in a fascinating appraisal of social ignorance, immobility, and unproductivity rather than of any specific ideology.

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Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”

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Tindol R.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2021

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issue 11

353-368

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Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” is a particularly noteworthy example of the sublime, a psychological state in which one is overwhelmed by the magnitude of that which is perceived by the mind. Valdemar exemplifies the sublime in that his death has somehow been suspended in time because he was under hypnosis as part of a medical experiment at the moment of his passing. However, the story also draws particular attention to the means by which insight into the nature of death is acquired by the hypnotist who narrates the story. For a more comprehensive understanding of the sublime experience, one may turn to the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan and the postmodernist work of Slavoj Žižek, which lead to the conclusion that the dramatic chain of events in “Valdemar” is an example of the sliding signifier, and, moreover, that the instability of the signifier may explain the sublime effect.

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The Internet Unconscious Sandy’ego Baldwina a teorie nieświadomości pisania elektronicznego

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Mizerkiewicz T.

Forum Poetyki

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2016

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issue 4-5

138-143

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The article discusses Sandy Baldwin’s book The Internet Unconscious. On the Subject of Electronic Literature. The author takes note of the numerous deconstructionist threads in Baldwin’s work on the subject of electronic literature, and at the same time points to the absence of scrupulous discussion of previously developed concepts of the unconscious of the subject of online writing. One example of such a work is Slavoj Žižek’s The Plague of Fantasies, which the author uses to show some of Baldwin’s theoretical oversights and finally present the thesis that The Internet Unconscious is hindered by an anachronistic conceptual framework.

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Artykuł jest omówieniem książki Sandy’ego Baldwina The Internet Unconscious. On the Subject of Electronic Literature. Autor zauważa liczne wątki dekonstrukcjonistyczne w refleksji Baldwina na temat podmiotu literatury elektronicznej, a zarazem wskazuje na brak skrupulatnego przedyskutowania wcześniej wypracowanych koncepcji nieświadomości podmiotu piszącego w sieci. Przykładem takiej koncepcji jest Przekleństwo fantazji Slavoja Žižka, za pomocą którego autor artykułu pokazuje kilka przeoczeń teoretycznych Baldwina i stawia tezę o pewnej anachroniczności pojęciowej książki The Internet Unconscious.

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Pojęcie ideologii jako pojęcie krytyczne

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Świrek K.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2017

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vol. 61(3(458))

63-77

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The article discusses the significance of the concept of ideology for social sciences. Although this concept was abandoned a long time ago in favour of the more “neutral” terms, due to Marxism and psychoanalysis it returned to social sciences in the second half of the 20th century. In the article, I present the concept of Louis Althusser, whose perception of ideological phenomena shifts them from the field of studies on cognitive mistakes and manipulation towards the socialization theory. I discuss shortly the psychoanalytical sources of this concept and point to the sociological tradition where similar concepts and problems can be found. I use the empirical example to illustrate the consequences of Althusser’s theory for understanding ideology, and Slavoj Zizek’s theory to show the ways out of certain impasse of this theory. In the summary, the question returns on the importance of the concept of ideology for social sciences.

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Conception of the Thing-in-itself in the Theory of Dialectical Materialism

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Tratnik S.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2015

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issue 3(38)

107-124

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The theory of dialectical materialism as the official philosophy of the Com-munist Party of the Soviet Union present a vision of dynamic material pro-cesses forming the laws of development of the higher strata of being. In his interrelated reading of the traditions of German idealism, historical material-ism and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek presents a vision of dematerialized matter as a way of trying to explain the genesis of subjectivity. This paper serves can be seen as an introductory text to this project as a presen-tation of how the concept of the Thing-in-itself is to be grasped within such an endeavor. The early materialist notion of den qua the paradoxical notion of something within the domain of nothing is taken by Žižek to be a way of conceiving the gap between Being and the One as the only true reality. In this way, a fresh presentation of the difference between idealism and materialism is given as an incentive to an insight to a different kind of objectivity.

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Suicidální reflexe

Socialism or Death: The Quarantine Edition

Żywy trup jako alegoria polityczna

Ontologie Egona Bondyho jako anticipace současné filosofie

Koncepcja interpelacji ideologicznej a krytyczny dyskurs o prawie

Rewolucja jako narzędzie emancypacji w myśli społeczno-politycznej Slavoja Žižka

Historiozoficzna interpretacja rewolucji październikowej w myśli społeczno-politycznej Slavoja Žižka

“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction

Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”

The Internet Unconscious Sandy’ego Baldwina a teorie nieświadomości pisania elektronicznego

Pojęcie ideologii jako pojęcie krytyczne

Conception of the Thing-in-itself in the Theory of Dialectical Materialism