{"id":3808,"date":"2009-09-24T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:10:00","slug":"zizek-concrete-universality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/09\/24\/zizek-concrete-universality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek concrete universality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in this Hegelian concept because I believe now that it is the key that will help me unlock how \u017di\u017eek will explain Lacanian critique of Laclau (Populism) and Butler (Performativity)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacan.com\/zizparallax2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Go here to get the extended critique of Laclau<\/a>, but I think this is also in his book <em>Parallax View<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8u9agm\" target=\"_blank\"> Book on \u017di\u017eek by Rex Butler <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s article on Lacan.com<\/p>\n<p>The Universal is not the encompassing container of the particular content, the peaceful medium-background of the conflict of particularities; the Universal &#8220;as such&#8221; is the site of an unbearable antagonism, self-contradiction, and (the multitude of) its particular species are ultimately nothing but so many attempts to obfuscate\/reconcile\/master this antagonism. In other words, the Universal names the site of a Problem-Deadlock, of a burning Question, and the Particulars are the attempted but failed Answers to this Problem.\u00a0 The concept of State, for instance, names a certain problem: how to contain the class antagonism of a society? All particular forms of State are so many (failed) attempts to propose a solution to this problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Parallax View<\/em> 34-35, <em>Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic<\/em> 49, <em>Less Than Nothing<\/em> 782<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in this Hegelian concept because I believe now that it is the key that will help me unlock how \u017di\u017eek will explain Lacanian critique of Laclau (Populism) and Butler (Performativity) Go here to get the extended critique of Laclau, but I think this is also in his book Parallax View Book on \u017di\u017eek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/09\/24\/zizek-concrete-universality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u017di\u017eek concrete universality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,35,69,118,106,41,103,20],"tags":[116,105],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-concrete_universal","category-laclau","category-symbolic","category-the-act","category-the-real","category-universal","category-zizek","tag-ltn","tag-thedebate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}