YouTube video here: Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx Welcome to Lecture 8 of Less Than Nothing. In this lecture we are going to be able to cover the entirety of the content in one [transcript], since we are dealing with the first interlude in Part 2 of the … Continue reading Interlude 1 – Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx
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Chapter 4 – Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? (Part 2)
YouTube video here: Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today (Part 2) Welcome to Lecture 7 of Less Than Nothing. In this lecture we will be covering Part 2 of Chapter 4: Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? In this section of Chapter 4 we will be radically shifting … Continue reading Chapter 4 – Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? (Part 2)
Chapter 4 – Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? (Part 1)
YouTube video here: Chapter 4 - Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? (Part 1) Welcome to Lecture 6 of Less Than Nothing. In this episode we will be diving head first into the Hegelian thing-in-itself: "Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today?" As in the last chapter, where we separate … Continue reading Chapter 4 – Is It Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? (Part 1)
Chapter 3 – Fichte’s Choice (Part 2)
YouTube Video Here: Chapter 3 - Fichte's Choice (Part 2) Welcome to Lecture 5 of Less Than Nothing: Fichte’s Choice (Part 2) (Part 1: here). In this [transcript] we cover the second half of Chapter 3 focusing on how we can connect Fichte’s subjectivist life-mind philosophy with contemporary theories. To be specific, if the focus … Continue reading Chapter 3 – Fichte’s Choice (Part 2)
Chapter 3 – Fichte’s Choice (Part 1)
YouTube video here: Chapter 3 - Fichte's Choice Welcome to Lecture 4 and Chapter 3 (Part 1) in Less Than Nothing titled “Fichte’s Choice”. In this episode we will be approaching the second figure in the quartet of German Idealism: Johann Fichte. Fichte represents a break with the Kantian metaphysical tradition, a break represented in a … Continue reading Chapter 3 – Fichte’s Choice (Part 1)
Chapter 2 – Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You
YouTube video here: Chapter 2 -- Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You Welcome back for another dive into Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing. Here in lecture 3 we approach Chapter 2, entitled “Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You” which is an ode to the structure of Christian tragedy and … Continue reading Chapter 2 – Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You
Chapter 1 – Vacillating the Semblances
YouTube video here: Chapter 1 - Vacillating the Semblances In this second lecture of Less Than Nothing, we are starting the first chapter, which is the first of three chapters in Part 1 — The Drink Before, and entitled “Vacillating the Semblances”. In Vacillating the Semblances we are going to be focused mostly on what … Continue reading Chapter 1 – Vacillating the Semblances
Introduction: Eppur Si Muove
YouTube video here: Introduction -- Eppur Si Muove In this series we are going to attempt to go through chapter by chapter Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s major works Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012). The point of this overview and analysis is to open to a broader audience the main ideas … Continue reading Introduction: Eppur Si Muove