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Rabble ( Pöbel ), originally coined by Hegel and further developed by Nietzsche, describes those who reject and are alienated from civil...

My best friend Sam Wang is a complex man known for many things, but if you ask an acquaintance to outline his properties, "argumentative"...

It is pretty rare for people to look at Hitler and have the immediate thought that pops up be "what did this guy go through to be THIS...

Populism is the invention of a less "civilized" and "enlightened age" in the 19th century, where cynics and self-interested elites...

The concept of building a society on natural structures has been the cliché of social critique since the beginning of time: it is the...

Slavoj Zizek is famous for many things, and one of those things is his enumeration of the “paradox of freedom.” To Zizek, freedom is...

What could be said in Lefort’s defense? Is his theory really that much of an abstraction? Does the recognition of the forces hold no...

This is a document of an interesting mental activity I had while reading Zizek’s Sublime Object of Ideology . In the first chapter, “How...

(a development from the quip “How Should We Look at Trump”) Remember how we discussed abstracting Trump from the person and focusing on...

Human rights, ironically, are a very metaphysical topic. Metaphysical logic pervades the discussion around human rights: what is its...

What I hate the most about grand narratives is that they are often misinterpreted as a justification for atrocities and stupidity. A good...

Lefort's constipation lies precisely in his solution: his advocacy for democracy. In sum, Lefort argues that the advocacy of totalitarian...

There is no doubt that Claude Lefort is a precise thinker: his penetrating evaluation of totalitarianism leaves any theoretical attempts...

Predicting the future is everyone’s favorite pastime. From Harari with his famous paradoxical title Homo Deus: A Brief History of...

Since the wide acceptance of Heidegger’s existential phenomenology, European continental philosophy has entered a new age. Instead of...