Morality and Aesthetics of THE HOLOCAUST in Fiction: Slavoj ZIzek on Hegel: Less Than Nothing
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Newest Mindgasms Quickie that is my first video in my new series on Hegel’s aesthetics, explored through the interpretations of other philosophers. Slavoj Ziziek is a famous Hegelian philosopher, so I am starting with his book about Hegel’s Dialectical Materialism called Less Than Nothing. I explore his essay in chapter 1 on the morality and aesthetics of the holocaust in fiction called Vascillating the Semblances: What Cannot be Said Must be Shown. Zizek criticizes Wittgenstein’s opinion that if you have not experienced something in reality, you should not depict in in fiction. He also describes Lacan’s notion that fiction can be a way of vicariously experiencing darkness that we would never want to witness in the real world, without any risk to ourselves. It’s cathartic in that way. We can empathize with tragedy while avoiding experiencing it directly.
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Check out my 7th of several Mindgasms Vlogs about Michel Foucault’s book called The History of Sexuality: Part 1. It’s his multi-factoral analysis of how cultural attitudes toward sex have changed throughout history, particularly from the 1600s to the 1800s. This episode is about how The Enlightenment led to anyone having anal sex, including gay people, bisexuals, pedophiles and hermaphrodites, being put into the arbitrary religious and scientific categories of sinful, medically flawed, and psychologically flawed. Leaders of the religious, scientific, legal and social orders, along with their associated institutions, used their power to convey their invented knowledge through discourse:
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