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(2014) Heidegger, Žižek and revolution, Dordrecht, Springer.
The accounts Žižek gives on the act, the revolution and the subject all stand and fall together. In a revolutionary act he distinguishes between the non-historical, symbolic, repeatable form of the act and the concrete, perishable content. Likewise, the subject is a non-historical break in the symbolic. If one criticises Žižek's account of revolution, one criticises his notion of the subject, and vice versa. This critique can have two aspects, a negative and a positive one.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-683-7_6
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Vadén, T. (2014). Žižek on a see-saw, in Heidegger, Žižek and revolution, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 127-138.
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