Slavoj Zizek

A classic BBC documentary, almost a game changer

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John Gray on John Rawls "a liberal state is not one that promotes the ideals of comprehensive liberalism, but instead one in which rival ideals can flourish in peace

John Gray [Straw Dogs]

Free speech, liberalism, problems of today. Can causing offence be a good thing? Philip Dodd explores this question with the Slovenian philosopher, the American author and the Danish journalist. On the 15th February 1989 the Ayatollah Komeni issued a fatwah following the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. Flemming Rose is the man who published the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and ignited international controversy. Slavoj Zizek has been called the most dangerous philosopher in the West; and Camille Paglia, the cultural critic and intellectual provocateur considers the topics she can and can’t teach now in the lecture theatres of America’s universities. Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek is out now. Provocations: Collected Essays by Camille Paglia is out now. Flemming Rose is the author of The Tyranny of Silence, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Washington DC.

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The most dangerous philosopher in the West? Slavoj Zizek

On why the AI artificial intelligence singularity may never happen

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On the virtue of tolerance. "You wouldn’t celebrate Osama’s death, only Thatcher’s. And you wouldn’t call ISIS savages, only Fox News. Fox is the outgroup, ISIS is just some random people off in a desert. You hate the outgroup, you don’t hate random desert people."

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Christopher Booker: What 'free speech' didn’t tell us about Charlie Hebdo jokes