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Category Archives: Philosophy
Las brujas de Macbeth I
En su libro sobre William Shakespeare, Terry Eagleton adelanta la ingeniosa tesis de que las brujas de Macbeth constituyen una suerte de célula revolucionaria cuyo objetivo no es otro que el de subvertir el orden social del antiguo reino escocés … Continue reading
Posted in Literatura, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Terry Eagleton
Tagged Eagleton, Lacan, Literatura, Macbeth, Obscene juissance, teatro, teoría crítica, William Shakespeare
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On Religious Tolerance in Rhode Island
The question of whether religion has a place in civic life has been a constant source of controversy since the emergence of modern liberal-democratic societies—since it was within them that this very notion of civic or public life first came … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Religion, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged church and state separation, Foucault, Kant, philosophy, religion
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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed
So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Evil, Films, Philosophy, Politics, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged films, filosofía, financial crisis, greed, Margin Call
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Solaris and heaven
Watching Solaris (2002), the version of Stanislaw Lem’s novel adapted and directed by Steven Soderbergh (there is a previous one by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky), I couldn’t help thinking about Christianity’s philosophically challenging notion of heaven. Briefly, Solaris is a … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Films, Philosophy
Tagged Andrei Tarkovski, Christianism, Emanuel Swedenborg, films, George Clooney, Heaven, Solaris, Stanislaw Lem, Steven Soderbergh
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Deseo y cine
Žižek comienza su Guía del pervertido para el cine (2006) con una advertencia: el problema que afrontamos los humanos no es que tengamos deseos — de hecho, desear es una parte muy importante de lo que somos —; el problema real es … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Films, Philosophy, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged culpa, deseo, films, filosofía, Slavoj Žižek
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