RECONCILIATION. Žižek’s Less Than Nothing: Ch. 4 - Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian? Pt. 1

In this video we explore in a lecture Chapter 4, Part 2 of Less Than Nothing by Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek titled "Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian today?". In this video we introduce the Hegelian philosophy of negativity, subjectivity, temporality and historical development. This introduction is situated next to the dominant Marxist interpretations of history.

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(1) Žižek, S. 2012. Is It Still Possible to be Hegelian Today? p. 197-198.
(2) p. 198.
(3) ibid.
(4) p. 203-204.
(5) p. 214.
(6) p. 213.
(7) p, 217.
(8) p. 221.
(9) p. 221-222.
(10) p. 226.

[scriptea]

I met with the lead philosophy professor at my university on the basis on trying to fundamentally establish a "perseverative introjective metaphysic of temporality" based on these ideas. I have taken one 1XX level course on philosophy. I was accepted to take a self-studied course based on my ideas alone. Thank you so much for this series. It is one of the greatest things to have happened, imo. When I searched for "how to understand Hegel" so many years ago, I would not have thought that trying to understand this series would be so powerful. Thank you.

[UncleJamie]

Hello. Just in case anyone is reading this and wondering "Is it worth it to spend so much of my time either watching these videos, reading Žižek directly, or both?", I'd just like to answer by saying "Yes. Absolutely."

Without going into the essential details of why, I've found that my many hours spent studying Žižek (especially _Less than Nothing_) have turned out to be extremely worthwhile, and (unlike many others things that I've done with my middle-aged life) I've not once regretted them.

I know that this is, and can only be, an appeal for you to blindly trust in the YouTube comment of a complete stranger, but sometimes philosophy has to be a risk for it to be worth taking.

[sketchesoharlem]

I appreciate you how navigate around eastern spirituality and deconstructionism and view them as a failure to realize “How to elevate one’s subjectivity to the universality of the symbolic order.”

Just gonna sit on that one for a while.

[fhinq]

Amazing in-depth Analysis - keep it Up! Really helps me while Reading "Less than Nothing" by Zizek

[jacquelinemarie]

I remember how it was you who posted: "both please" re. zizek and peterson. Indeed! Thank you for your work. I have been listening from the start.

[thomassimmons]

This is very important work. The ball is being advanced. Another first down for Cadell ! !

[ashgiri]

This is so damn good. Keep this up damnit.

[omarchavez]

Amazing! This is really helping me dig deeper on his book. Would love to see a video on Parallax View

[steverobertson]

These are excellent lectures. I think seeing the US Left-Right fissure as the failure of 'the form of democracy itself' is not really Zizek's point (although he may very well say that in this context). The contemporary form of democracy, including Left-Right, are ways of suturing and mystifying the true antagonisms, the impossibility within capitalism and sexuation themselves, which are real. If our form of democracy somehow disappeared, the past/future would indeed dissolve, but we would be left with the same antagonisms.

[faridalsabeh]

Zizek represents the philosophical spirit of our time. Or rather, our collective reaction to him does.

[teganmares]

So we use oppositions/invented dualities as a tool, knowing we are doing this imaginatively, as a thought experiment that hopes to open up a new space in ourselves, and potentially, through language, for others?

[animefurry]

I get that Marx didn't turn out perfectly and that we can't posit a future absolute, but the way you talk about him really makes it seem like Zizek isn't in debt to Marx at all, you make it sound like he was wrong about everything and like his legacy does not matter in a positive way, that all he left behind was ruin and despair, if anything is to be taken for all this, it is that Marxs legacy is still up in air and gray, not black and white.

Great work tho, love it, regardless of your overly zelus smack on Marx.