Stephen Dozeman
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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Kind of moving on off some of these themes, a lot of the debate here revolves around Hegel's understanding of actuality, partly because he's got this famous kind of quip about the rational being actual and the actual being rational, which would seem to imply a certain conservative politics of like, it is what it is.
And obviously that doesn't fit well with Marx or Zizek who are much more progressive.
You write a quote for Hegel, much of what happens to be the case in his given status quo is merely there or exists, but it's not fully real qua actual.
So this is a very different understanding of actuality.
Can you kind of,
unpack Hegel's understanding of actuality and how it resides for you and Zizek on the side of revolution rather than reaction, as you put it.
Yeah, so before getting back to Zizek, you kind of continue this extensive exploration of actuality, especially in his book, The Science of Logic.
He offers three sub-variations of actuality, contingency, relative necessity, and absolute necessity.
Can you kind of unpack these kind of sub-variations?
can return immediately to Zizek if you would prefer that.
Oh,
Yeah, kind of returning to Zizek's project with kind of reanimating Hegel, you kind of unpack his account of teleology, which is another place where he's been kind of, in your view, kind of misconstrued as having this very strict cause-effect story that happens.
You write, or you quote Zizek writing, "'If, due to contingency, a story emerges at the end, then this story will appear as necessary.'
yes, the story is necessary, but its necessity itself is contingent.
Can you kind of unpack what Zizek's doing here and what you're kind of picking up?
Following up this question of teleology, you end this chapter reflecting on the plight of progressive political movements today.
Zizek is famous for his continued commitment to a Marxist-Communist push.
That means different things at different times for him, but generally he's still committed to this large-scale movement.
So how does Zizek's reinflated kind of non-teleological Hegel help us make sense of this long string of kind of political defeats and backlashes, as well as thinking about, you know, potential consequences?
transformation and maybe just answer the first we'll kind of get to the transformation and overcoming later.
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