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  1. Slavoj Žižek _ Event: Philosophy in Transit

    the 'magic cave' enables us to joyously accept the End. There is nothing morbid in it; such an acceptance is, on the contrary, the necessary background of concrete social engagement.
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  2. Slavoj Žižek _ Event: Philosophy in Transit

    It would be interesting to compare Tarkovsky's work with the Hollywood commercial rewritings of novels which have served as bases for movies: Tarkovsky does exactly the same as the lowest Hollywood producer, re-inscribing the enigmatic encounter with Otherness, the Thing, into the framework of the production of the couple.
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  3. Slavoj Žižek _ Event: Philosophy in Transit

    as in Heinrich Heine's {a contemporary of Kierkegaard's} well-known saying that one should value above everything else 'freedom, equality and crab soup'. 'Crab soup' stands here for all the small pleasures in the absence of which we become {mental, if not real} terrorists,"
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  4. Slavoj Žižek _ Event: Philosophy in Transit

    Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?"
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