What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory farm in which pigs are half-blind and cannot even properly walk, b...
The root of these shifts in the meaning of big Other is that, in the subject’s relation to it, we are effectively dealing with a closed loop best rendered by Escher’s famous image of two hands drawing...
كيف نستطيع مأسسة صناعة القرار الجمعي فيما وراء إطار عمل النظام متعدد اﻷحزاب الديمقراطي؟ أو لنقل ذلك بشكل فظ: من يعلم ما ينبغي فعله اليوم؟ ﻻ توجد ذات تعرف، ﻻ في شكل المثقفين وﻻ الناس العاديين. هل هناك...
La libertad formal precede a la libertad real, creando las condiciones para esta última.
When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the revolution...
Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here...
On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date heralded the happy 90’s, the Francis Fukuyama dream of the end of history –the...
Not all is ideology, beneath the ideological mask, I am also a human person' is the very form of ideology, of its 'practical efficiency'.
Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of theircorrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in
المتظاهرون ببساطة يدعون من هم في السلطة للنظر إلى أسفل، إلى الهاوية المفتوحة تحت أقدامهم
الفساد بين السياسيين ورجال اﻷعمال والبنكيون يتركنا بﻻ حيلة
If Western universal values are false, is it enough to oppose them with a particular way of life like China’s Confucian ‘mainstream ideology’? Don’t we need a different universalism, a different proje...
If Substance is Life, is the Subject not Death? Insofar as, for Hegel, the basic feature of pre-subjective Life is the spurious infinity of the eternal reproduction of the life substance through the i...
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very forceful weapon - maybe it will become more and more forceful. And you sho...
We all know the elementary form of politeness, that of the empty symbolic gesture, a gesture-an offer-which is meant to be rejected. In John Irving's A Prayer forOwen Meany, after the little boy Owen...
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to un...
The same philantropists who give millions for AIDS or education in tolerance have ruined the lives of thousands through financial speculation and thus created the conditions for the rise of the very i...
Porque si la democracia significa representación, se trata, en primer lugar, de la representación del sistema general que adopta sus formas. En otras palabras: la democracia electoral es representativ...
In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world