Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation

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Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation

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Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation | MR Online

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Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”

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