ISBN:
9789462096837
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 158 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Perspectives of Critical Theory and Education
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Heidegger, Žižek and Revolution
Keywords:
Revolutionaries
;
Liberalism
;
Education
;
Education
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Metaphysics is Politics -- Heidegger on Revolution -- What is Wrong in Heidegger’s Revolution? -- Industrial Agriculture and Concentration Camps or the Will and Evil -- Žižek on a See-Saw -- Žižek and Heidegger Avec Means -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
Why did Martin Heidegger, the giant of continental philosophy, believe in 1933 that Hitler is the future of Europe? And why does Slavoj Žižek, “the most dangerous philosopher in the West”, support Heidegger’s right wing militancy? Heidegger and Žižek are not only erudite thinkers on human being but also incorrigible revolutionaries who even after the catastrophic failures of their favourite revolutions—the October revolution for Žižek and the National Socialist revolution for Heidegger—want to overcome capitalism; undemocratically, if necessary. The two share a spirited and sophisticated rejection of the liberalist worldview and the social order based on it. The problem is not that liberalism is factually wrong, but rather that it is ethically bad. Both argue for building and educating a new collective based on human finitude and communality. In the tradition of the Enlightenment, Žižek advocates a universalist revolution, whereas Heidegger sees the transformation rooted in particular historical existence, inviting a bewildering array of mutually exclusive criticisms and apologies of his view. The crisis that Heidegger and Žižek want to address is still here, but their unquestioned Europocentrism sets a dark cloud over the whole idea of revolution
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION; A REVOLUTION, AFTER ALL?; RADICAL HEIDEGGER AS THE STARTING POINT; NOTES; CHAPTER 2:METAPHYSICS IS POLITICS; TRUTH IS NOT NEUTRAL; HEIDEGGER AND ŽIŽEK IN EVERYDAY POLITICS; HEIDEGGERIAN MARXISM AND ŽIŽEK AS THE NEW MARCUSE?; THE PROBLEM WITH THE LIBERAL SUBJECT; NOTES; CHAPTER 3:HEIDEGGER ON REVOLUTION; THE SUBJECT, THE WORKER, THE POLIS; "NUR NOCH DIE JUGEND KANN UNS RETTEN"; HEIDEGGER'S STEP AND ITS DIRECTION; NOTES; CHAPTER 4:WHAT IS WRONG IN HEIDEGGER'S REVOLUTION?; A SMALL MAN LIVING IN HARD TIMES
Description / Table of Contents:
THE LIBERAL CRITICISM: TOO MUCH POSTMODERNISMDECISIONISM; THE FRENCH CRITIQUES: TOO LITTLE POSTMODERNISM; NAZISM AS ANTICOMMUNISM; NAZISM AS ASUBJECTIVE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE; THE TYPICAL MARXIST CRITIQUE; ŽIŽEK›S UNTYPICAL MARXIST CRITIQUE AND PRAISE; NOTES; CHAPTER 5:INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS OR THE WILL AND EVIL; NOTES; CHAPTER 6:ŽIŽEK ON A SEE-SAW; NOTES; CHAPTER 7:ŽIŽEK AND HEIDEGGER AVEC MEANS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-6209-683-7
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