The liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market capitalism at the end of 2008. The financial meltdown signals that the fantasy of globalization is over and as millions are put out of work it has become impossible to ignore the irrationality of global capitalism.
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The text criticizes the reigning ideology with a plea that we should reappropriate several lost causes, and looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Highlighting the revolutionary terror of Robespierre, Mao and the Bolsheviks, the text argues that while these struggles ended in historic failure and monstrosity, this is not the entire story. Particularly in the light of the forthcoming ecological crisis, we should reinvent revolutionary terror and the dictatorship of the proletariat in the struggle for universal emancipation.
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Drawing upon Picasso's Guernica, Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan's films, Michel Houellebecq's novels, jokes, Lacanian psychology and a Kantian analysis of Hurricane Katrina, the treatise demonstrates how societies understand, obscure and deny the sources of violence. The text enumerates the varieties of violence (subjective, objective, systemic) and how it inheres in language, economics and religion, urging readers to discern the violence that sustains our very efforts to fight violence and to promote tolerance.
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Hegel’s absolute idealism is not merely the expression of a unique historical moment which was irretrievably lost with modernization, with the era of natural sciences and material progress, but that one can conceive a possible and productive “return to Hegel” which would fully take into account the immense historical change of the last two centuries. The investigation elaborates a new concept of dialectics, focused on the notion of parallax: dialectical “contradiction” is reinterpreted as the parallax shift between two aspects that cannot converge although they refer to the same content.
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The book proposes an interpretation of Christianity grounded in Hegelian dialectics and in radical emancipatory politics. Its premise is the Hegelian interpretation of Christianity whereby Hegel is perhaps the only philosopher who drew full philosophical consequences from the Christian triad Father – Son – Holy Spirit, i.e., from the death of God and his resurrection as the Spirit of the collective of believers. The main theological reference of the book is the “Death-of-God” theology (Thomas Altizer), while its main critical target is the vague New Age spirituality (“Western Buddhism”).
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