The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
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The Subject, This "Inwardly Circumcised Jew" The Tickling Object. The Kantian Parallax. The Birth of (Hegelian) Concrete Universality out of the Spirit of (Kantian) Antinomies. The Master-Signifier and Its Vicissitudes. Soave sia il vento... The Parallax of the Critique of Political Economy.
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Building Blocks for a Materialist Theology A Boy Meets the Lady. Kierkegaard as a Hegelian. Die Versagung. The Traps of Pure Sacrifice. The Difficulty of Being a Kantian. The Comedy of Incarnation. Odradek as a Political Category. Too Much Life!
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Interlude I: Kate's Choice, or, The Materialism of Henry James
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The Solar Parallax: The Unbearable Lightness of Being No One
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Divine Shit Burned by the Sun. Pick Up Your Cave! Copernicus, Darwin, Freud and Many Others. Toward a New Science of Appearances. Resistances to Disenchantment. When the God Comes Around. The Desublimated Object of Post-Ideology. Danger? What Danger?
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The Loop of Freedom "Positing the Presuppositions". A Cognitivist Hegel? The False Opacity. Emotions Lie, or, Where Damasio is Wrong. Hegel, Marx, Denett. From Physics to Design? The Unconscious Act of Freedom. The Language of Seduction, the Seduction of Language.
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Interlude 2: Objet Petit A in Social Links, or, The Impasses of Anti-Anti-Semitism
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The Lunar Parallax: Toward a Politics of Subtraction
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From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Power Ontic Errance, Ontological Truth. Gelassenheit? No Thanks! Toward the Theory of the Stalinist Musical. The Biopolitical Parallax. The Historicity of the Four Discourses. Jouissance as a Political Category. Do We Still Live in a World?
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The Obscene Knot of Ideology, and How to Untie It The Academic Rumspringa, or, the Parallax of Power and Resistance. Human Rights versus the Rights of the Inhuman. Violence Enframed. The Ignorance of the Chicken. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Fundamentalism? Over the Rainbow Coalition!...
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